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Animal Tales
Composting & Mulching
Flowers
Fruit
Gardening
House plants
Insects
Landscaping
Miscellaneous
Nuts
Ornamental plants
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Poisonous plants
Propagation
Recipes
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Superstar Plants of Texas
Tomatoes
Trees & Shrubs
Turf grass
Vegetables
- Asparagus
- Baby vegetables
- Beets
- Broccoli, Green Magic
- Carrots
- Collards
- Cucumbers
- Cucurbit Problem Solver
- Disappearing Vegetable Varieties--Tomatoes and Broccoli
- Green beans
- Harvesting Vegetables
- Herbs
- Hoffman Cluster Surprise
- Keys to growing vegetables successfully
- Lettuce, Crawford
- Nutritional composition of vegetables
- Okra
- Onions
- Onion facts
- Onion History
- Onion Laws
- Our Vegetable Travelers
- Parsons Potent Chili Penguin
- Peppers
- Pepper, 2007 Gourmet Chili Pepper and Salsa Festival
- Potatoes
- Radishes
- Recommended Vegetable Varieties for Texas
- Rodeo, San Antonio Livestock Exposition & Show (SALES) Tomatoes and Plants
- Specialty vegetables in Texas
- Specialty vegetable seed sources
- Sweet Corn
- Spinach
- Spinach, Organic Contamination from California
- Tomato Problem Solver
- Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV)
- Tomato, Amelia
- Tomato, Appleton Red Currant Tomato
- Tomato, BHN 602 Rodeo Tomato 2012
- Tomato, Dwarf Cherry Surprise (BHN 968)
- Tomato, Solar Fire
- Tomato, SunPride
- Tomato, Tomato 444
- Tomato, Tomatoes
- Tomato, 'Tycoon' -- Rodeo Tomato for 2011
- Transplant and Seedling Growing For Home Gardeners
- Turnips & Mustards
- Vegetable Variety Trials
- Watermelon Disease Diagnosis & Control
Videos
- People Place Alley Gardens with Dr. Roland Roberts,
retired Professor and Horticulturist in Lubbock, Texas
- Growing asparagus (7:13)
- Sowing carrots on top of beets
- Spring garden and garden orientation
- Drip irrigation (6:48)
- Trellising snow peas and other vegetables (2:39)
- Mulch and mulches (6:09)
- Planting green beans (6:49)
- Spacing members of the cabbage family (2:20)
- Removing row covers, adding wind breaks (2:55)
- A bit about lettuce (2:59)
- Spacing sweet corn (1:54)
- Cages and plastic for tomatoes (8:10)
- Pollinating squash by hand, squash bugs (4:40)
- Severe weather, tomatoes, and snow peas (6:53)
- Solving common potato problems (4:57)
- Growing cucumbers on trellises (7:02)
- Harvesting the cabbage family (6:45)
- Tomatoes: coping with heat and mites (6:17)
- Planting broccoli for a fall crop (7:29)
- Planting carrots for the fall garden (7:02)
- Planting fall beets and corn (6:02)
- Plant Answers TV
- Water Garden Plants and Koi
- Floratam St. Augustine Grass
- Cosmos, Growing
- Purslane--Beautiful Flowers You Can Eat
- Managing Deer in the Landscape
- Gardens [12]:
- Planting Sweet Corn:
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Dr. Parsons gives helpful hints for early plantings of sweet corn and other vegetables.
- Fall Gardening:
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Out with the old... in with the new. Jerry gives advice on cleaning out the old garden and preparing for the new planting.
- Fall Gardening:
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Get a jump on the fall garden using large transplants.
- Fertilizing Gardens:
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Your vegetables need to be fed just as you do! Tips on fertilizing and sidedressing your vegetable garden.
- Preparing Your Garden:
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Winter is the ideal time to begin preparing for your SPRING garden. Clean out, compost, till and check the nutrient levels in the soil.
- Preparing Your Garden:
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Cleaning out the remnants of your summer's garden and preparing for fall planting.
- Preparing Your Spring Garden:
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- Tilling Fall Garden:
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Jerry says "Remember, never have a garden any larger than your spouse can take care of." More wisdom on preparing the fall garden...
- Covering Tomatoes:
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Covering your tomatoes in the late fall can make them ripen faster to beat the frost and cold weather.
- Planting Tomatoes on Good Friday:
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Planting the spring garden seems to be a Good Friday tradition. Helpful hints from San Antonio's Weekend Gardener.
- Tomato Evaluations:
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Recognizing a good tomato variety is not magic; it's a science backed by lots of HARD work. Jerry tells how he develops his recommended list.
- Waterlily Gardening in Containers:
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Don't have a fish pond in your back yard? Jerry tells how you can have those beautiful waterlilies... in containers.
- Vegetables [24]:
- Fruit & Nuts [27]:
- Apple Production in Texas:
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Growing apples in Texas presents some unique problems. High pH soils, warm winters, late frosts, and above all, cotton root rot! But when we do it all right...
- Freezing Damage to Peaches:
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Immature peaches that have been damaged by a freeze will continue to develop for a while, but if the young seed inside is dead, the peach will fall off while it is still green.
- Making Apple Cider:
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What's a few surface blemishes if you're going to grind them up and squeeze all that delicious juice out???
- Apple Production - Castroville, TX:
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- Apple Production - Medina, TX:
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- Growing Blackberries in Texas:
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Dr. Parsons extends an invitation to pick Texas blackberries at the Love Creek Pick Your Own.
- Growing Figs:
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Keep those fig bushes well-watered and keep the birds away from the ripening figs. Check out the PLANTanswers Web site for fig recipes.
- Protecting Grapes:
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Cover your grapes with bird netting to make sure you get your share.
- Texas Apples at the Love Creek Orchard:
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Dr. Parsons visits the Love Creek Pick Your Own in Devine and looks at the apples and peaches.
- Texas Red Grapefruit:
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Looking for the red grapefruit from the Rio Grande Valley.
- Harvesting Loquats:
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- Papayas:
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Can you spot the difference between male and female papayas?
- Organic Peaches:
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Peaches for Father's Day.
- Peaches:
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Jerry takes the first bite off the tree from some organically grown peaches.
- Growing Pears in Texas:
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Tips and tricks for growing pears in your home garden.
- Harvesting Pears:
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How do you tell when a pear is ripe and ready to pick?
- Harvesting Pecans:
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Dr. Parsons shows you "how to" harvest this year's pecan crop.
- Harvesting Pecans - Shakin' the Nuts from the Trees:
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Dr. Parsons shows you "how to" harvest this year's pecan crop.
- Persimmons:
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Parsons, persimmons and 'possums. What could be more informational and entertaining. Jerry looks at the non-astringent Japanese persimmons.
- Growing Satsuma Mandarins:
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Satsuma mandarins for the South Central Texas climate.
- Satsumas for San Antonio:
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More info about cold hardy satsuma mandarins.
- Satsumas at the San Antonio Botanical Center:
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Jerry introduces us to the cold hardy satsuma mandarins.
- Sweet and Juicy Satsumas:
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- Strawberries:
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Rainy weather causes a multitude of problems for strawberry growers in wet years.
- Adams Apples:
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Jim Thomas interviews Baxter Adams concerning the growing apple industry in Bandera County, Texas.
- Pear Varieties:
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Jerry Parsons talks about different pear varieties.
- Ornamentals [75]:
- Bluebonnet Seed Production:
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Dr. Parsons describes how the white and colored bluebonnets were developed with the help of "spotters" who identified off-color seedlings and farmers who grew large plantings for seeds.
- Growing Cactus:
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Sometimes you want to grow roses, but your growing conditions would be better suited to growing cactus!
- Growing Acid Loving Plants:
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You can grow acid-loving plants like dogwoods and azaleas in areas that have high pH soils... with the proper preparation of the planting site.
- Firebush:
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Firebush, Hamelia patens, is one tough ornamental. It can stand up to the heat of a Texas summer and thrive.
- Growing Azaleas in South Central Texas:
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If you prepare the planting site properly, you can grow acid-loving plants like azaleas in South Central Texas.
- Cosmos:
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Cosmos, one of the best re-seeding annuals for summer color. The hotter it gets, the better they bloom.
- Wildflower Seed Production:
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Wildflower seeds are available through the hard work of diligent and skilled farmers. Jerry visits Wildeed Farms in Fredericksburg, TX and tours their production fields.
- Pansies for Fall Color:
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Pansies are one of the best ornamental bedding plants for fall color. In most of Texas, they will bloom continuously through the winter.
- 'New Gold' Lantana:
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'New Gold' lantana is a superior ornamental type lantana. It is nearly sterile, which means that it produces no seeds to become weedy in the landscape, and it blooms continuously without having to remove seeds.
- Growing Acid Loving Plants In South Central Texas:
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- Treating BARE Spots in Lawns:
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- Begonias for the Summer Heat:
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- Introduction of the Colored Bluebonnets:
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- Planting Bluebonnets in the Fall:
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- Texas Bluebonnets:
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- Texas Bluebonnets:
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- Texas Bluebonnets:
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- Vitex - The Other Blue Flower:
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- Bougainvillea:
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- Attracting Butterflies and Hummingbirds:
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- Growing Cannas:
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- Growing Celosia:
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- Columbines for Texas:
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- Colorful Plants for Containers:
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- Cosmos:
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- Cosmos:
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- Cosmos:
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- Crapemyrtles:
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- Cyclamens for the Cool Seasons:
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- Dianthus (Pinks):
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- Fall Color in San Antonio:
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- Fall IS THE Time for Planting Annuals:
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- Gayfeather:
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- Tropical Hibiscus:
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- Hollies:
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- Production of Interior Foliage Plants:
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- Hydrangeas for Mother's Day:
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- The Bunnybloom Larkspur:
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- Lawn Recovery:
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- Louisiana Iris:
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- Mari-Mums for Fall Color:
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- Mari-Mums Explode in Color:
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- Mari-Mums for All Souls Day:
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- Mari-Mums and Salvia:
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- Mari-Mums at the San Antonio Botanical Center:
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- Maroon Bluebonnets:
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- Montezuma Cypress:
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- Montezuma Cypress:
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- Orchids for Texas:
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- Ornamental Kale:
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- Palms for Texas:
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- Petunias for Texas:
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- Are Poinsettias Poisonous?:
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- Poinsettias:
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- Poinsettias at Dietert's Greenhouses:
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- Red Mountain Salvia:
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- Waterlily Varieties:
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- Wildflowers in Spring:
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- Zinnias:
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- Zoysiagrass:
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- Domestication of the Texas State Wildflower - The Bluebonnet:
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Dr. Jerry Parsons describes the effort to domesticate the Texas state flower, the bluebonnet. He also recounts the effort to find color variants of this favorite wildflower.
- Aggie Maroon:
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Jerry Parsons talks about bicolor of bluebonnets and how the maroon bluebonnet came about.
- Chinese Trumpetcreeper:
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Jerry Parsons talks about the beautiful Chinese Trumpetcreeper plant.
- Chinese Trumpetcreeper:
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Jerry Parsons talks about the beautiful Chinese Trumpetcreeper plant.
- Chinese Trumpetcreeper with Jerry Parsons and Aphrodite:
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Jerry Parsons interviews Aphrodite about the Chinese Trumpetcreeper and how it is propagated.
- Growing Cool Season Annuals:
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Jerry Parsons discusses helpful tips when growing cool season annuals.
- Growing Summer Annuals:
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Jerry Parsons gives tips on how to grow summer annuals.
- Phalaenopsis Orchids:
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Jerry Parsons talks about Phalaenopsis Orchids and how they grow best.
- Phalaenopsis Orchids with Dr. Yin Tung Wang:
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Jerry Parsons interviews Dr. Wang about phalaenopsis orchids.
- Phalaenopsis Orchids:
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Jerry Parsons talks about phalaenopsis orchids.
- Pink Bluebonnets:
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Jerry Parsons talks about pink bluebonnets.
- Preparing Beds for Annuals:
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Jerry Parsons talks gives tips on preparing beds for annuals.
- Mari-mums:
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- Waterlilies:
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Jerry Parsons interviews Dr. Clyde Ikins about the sexuality of waterlilies.
- Waterlilies in Pots:
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Jerry Parsons talks about growing waterlilies in pots.
- Practices [37]:
- Pests [19]:
- Weather [13]:
- Specials [23]:
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