Extension News & Insight

Body The other day I was shopping for vegetables and as I was looking at celery, I thought this is one vegetable that people eat a lot of but we don’t know a lot about. Mainly because it is not grown in our gardens.

Body Have you been ready for the garden season and just can’t wait with the warmer temperatures we’ve been having. Well it’s time to plant potatoes. Anytime from mid- to late-March is fine for potato planting.

Body Did the Extreme Cold Hurt This Year’s Fruit Crop? Normally we are concerned with cold damage to fruit buds as they break dormancy in the spring. However, this year, people are concerned that the extreme cold temperatures last week may have damaged their fruit plants.

Body February is Cherry Month! Mom had a big orchard. Lots of apricot, apple, peach, and cherry trees.

Body In recent days I’ve been catching up on chores I decided to put on hold during our recent weather, which caused temperatures to plummet, the sky to appear gray and gloomy, and left many in the middle of the country to adjust energy consumption in the hopes of keeping the power on.