Weed group: is a creeping winter annual Characteristics: Life cycle begins with seeds germinate in late fall and winter. Spring produces tiny star shaped white flowers on hairy stems which set seed and die as the temperature rises. The spreading branch structure develops a fibrous root system wherever they come in contact with soil. This […]
Oklahoma Weed: Black Medic
Weed group: Summer annual. Black Medic is also considered a noxious weed Characteristics: Resembles and often mistaken as clover. Low growing, crawling weed. Black medic is also a legume and is able fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. Sprouts from seed in the spring and fall, often living through the winter. Plants that germinate in summer […]
Oklahoma Weed: Annual Bluegrass (Poa)
Weed group: Broad leaf winter annual Characteristics: Thrives in moist soil and cool weather and dies in dry hot weather. Forms dense bright green patches. Each plant produces apprx. 100 seeds. There are actually 2 types of Bluegrass one being a true annual and the other a perennial. It is difficult to differentiate between the […]
When Should I Harvest Corn?
When should I harvest or pick the corn? The appearance of the unhusked ears provide little information of the optimum time to harvest. Everyone has their way of telling if the corn is ready. 1. Some look at the silks as an indicator of when not to harvest, harvesting only when the silks are dry […]
Is It Possible To Grow Corn In Containers?
After eating Eugester’s sweet corn from Wisconsin, not just any sweet corn will do! Living in suburbia, in a postage stamp sized yard, the lack of space pretty much eliminated the possibility of planting corn. You might imagine my surprise upon stumbling across a sweet corn that will grow in containers! Is that possible? It is […]
Sweet Corn Tassle & Silk
You will notice one day that your corn will look like this…. the first photo shows the corn tassle. It is a good surprise! Corn is monoecious, which means that there are both male and female flowers on each corn plant. In some monoecious plants the male and female parts are located in a single flower. In […]
Red Dirt Gardening Calendar For November
As the Oklahoma weather cools and winter approaches my yard and garden are dominated by the deep crimson of the Japanese maples and the fiery reds of the dwarf Firepower Nandinas, who until now have been green. Yellow and orange leaves of the trees now fall upon the yard as the deep greens and blues […]
October’s Oklahoma Red Dirt Gardening Calendar
Oklahoma Fall brings not only cooler weather for working in the garden but the OU Texas football game, Hook’em Horns! Now, back to Oklahoma Red Dirt Gardening chores for October. Plant Cool season grasses can be planted through the middle of the month. Fall is the best time to plant ryegrass, bluegrass or […]
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