Cliff Roe Photography By Bob Dailey Most people in The Woodlands want a beautiful lawn and are willing to pay big bucks insuring lawns are lush and green. In the endless process of having emerald expanses in front of homes, residents here spend millions on lawn beauty products – pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers – […]
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By Bob Dailey Follow the Integrated Pest Management program promoted by Texas A&M Agrilife Extension. IPM integrates best practices for control of pests and diseases. It includes preventive cultural practices, monitoring, mechanical controls, biological controls, and finally chemical controls if all else fails. For more complete information, call the Montgomery County Master Gardeners Hotline at
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By Bob Dailey Green lawns are attractive. Keeping them attractive is not much of a problem if you follow a few simple rules. A&M Research The Don’t Bag It program was developed by the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension back in the late 1980s and proved conclusively that collecting clippings was a waste of time and
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By Bob Dailey Customers of Woodlands Water have a lifetime $150.00 rebate (50% of $300.00) on a wide variety of water savings devices. Here are rebate categories available to residents: Native Plants A new initiative, begun in 2018, is the rebate program for native plants. Woodlands Water has chosen 100 drought-tolerant plants native to Southeast
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Photo by Cliff Roe Photography By Bob Dailey “It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.” -Charles Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms. The best method to judge the
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PFAS stands for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances. They are a group of human-made chemicals that have been widely used since the 1940s in various industrial and commercial applications. PFAS are known for their resistance to heat, water, and oil, making them useful in products such as non-stick cookware, stain-resistant fabrics, water-repellent coatings, firefighting foams, and
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By Bob Dailey That’s right. The fungal plague that makes big splotches of yellow and brown in your yard is now known as “large patch” – at least here in southeast Texas. Both are caused by the same fungus (Rhizoctonia solani – try saying that quickly three times.) But there are two different strains of the
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