Grass Lawn Alternatives
TSU Extension Agent Joellen Dimond gives some ideas for what to do if you are tired of maintaining your grass lawn. Before you run out and kill your grass you need to determine your needs for landscape. Do you have children that want to play or pets? The options run the gamut in price from an expensive pool to hardscape to bare gravel and mulch to shrubs to meadows. Even without grass there is still maintenance that must be done on any landscape.
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Killing Grass Around Blueberries
This week in the garden retired UT Extension Agent shows how to apply sethoxydim (trade name Poast) to kill the Bermuda grass around a blueberry plant. It may take several applications to kill all the grass in this area. >>Watch
Other things to do
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Carbaryl
Carbaryl has been around for a long time. It is the third most used insecticide in the US and is sold under the trade name Sevin. >>Watch
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Permethrin
Permethrin is a synthetic pyrethroid. It mimics pyrethrin, a natural occurring chemical found in chrysanthemums. >>Watch
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Imidacloprid
Imidacloprid is a neonicotinoid which means the chemical resembles nicotine. It is a systemic insecticide that interferes with insect nervous systems. >>Watch
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Garden Vegetable Skillet
UT Extension Agent Karen Bernard shoes how to make an easy, healthy, delicious dish straight from your garden. >>Watch
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Phenoxy Herbicides
Mike Dennison talks about 2,4-D and Dicamba, two common phenoxy herbicides. >>Watch
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Building a Terrarium
Terrarium Artist Nancy Morrow shows how to build a terrarium >>Watch
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Viewer Questions
Can you deadhead a knockout rose?
It is not necessary to deadhead knockout roses because they are self-cleaning. But Joellen Dimond is curious about why there are so many blooms on one stem. >>Watch
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