| Terrific Turfgrass for Louisiana From Saturday night in Tiger Stadium to golf courses, lawns, cemeteries, sod farms, airports, roadsides and parks, turfgrasses provide environmental, economic, recreational, employment, health, safety and aesthetic benefits to Louisiana. |
| Scheduling Speciality Cut Flower Production in Louisiana Specialty cut flowers, or nontraditional cut flowers, have become increasingly important in agriculture. Typically, specialty cut flower growers are owners of small acreages that have the basic equipment for producing a horticultural crop. |
| Weeds in Container Nursery Crops (more photos) Additional images for "Weeds in Container Nursery Crops" |
| New Light Shed on Landscape Groundcovers The best choice for shady areas where light is a limiting factor in turfgrass growth is a groundcover. Typical lawn grasses are physiologically incapable of surviving such locations. This research project explored groundcover options. |
| Daylily Rust Problem Continues In the summer of 2000, daylily rust was reported for the first time in the United States. It has since spread across most of the country and continues to present problems for home gardeners, commercial landscapers and daylily growers. |
| Horticulture in a Can: Improving Student Grades and Attitudes Toward the Environment As a way to bring awareness to Louisiana’s vanishing coast, the Department of Horticulture in cooperation with the Louisiana Sea Grant College developed an educational program called “Coastal Roots” aimed at elementary and secondary students. |
| Nursery Engineering Raising plants in containers creates unique problems for nursery growers. A series of tests were undertaken to help assess the benefits of different growing techniques. |
| Weeds in Container Nursery Crops Weeds compete with nursery crops for water, nutrients and light and can potentially harbor insects and diseases. They are common in all container nurseries and can cause significant losses in product quality and quantity. |
| Fruit, Truck Experiment Station Grows into Horticulture Center Established as the Fruit and Truck Experiment Station in January 1922, the LSU AgCenter’s Hammond Research Station has served the needs of the strawberry and vegetable industries in Southeast Louisiana for more than 80 years. |
| Horticulture: A Dynamic Influence Those of us who have the privilege of being a professional horticulturist enjoy the reward of knowing that we directly touch the lives of every single citizen in Louisiana every day. The science and art of horticulture remains a dynamic influence on our lives. |
| LSU AgCenter helps Louisiana ‘Get It Growing’ No matter where you are in Louisiana, you can receive educational information to help you with your lawn and garden. One way we assure this is by offering a program called “Get It Growing,” featuring one of our horticulturists, Dan Gill. |
| Bracy Helps Set New Course for Hammond Research Station Two years into her job has resident coordinator of the Hammond Research Station, Regina Bracy still considers it challenging and fun. |
| Louisiana’s Growing Green Industry The green industry (nursery, landscape, greenhouse, sod and allied industries) is growing in Louisiana and nationally. This growth is fueled by changes in consumer incomes and demographics. Consumers continue to allocate a portion of their increased incomes to home improvements, including their lawns and gardens. |
| Getting Rid of Plant Pests in Nurseries The LSU AgCenter offers help to nursery owners in their continual battle against pests, especially insect pests. |
| Pot-in-pot Nursery Production Traditional pot-in-pot production in a nursery attempts to combine field and container-growing techniques and offers advantages over both production systems. |
| Rose Research Expands The LSU AgCenter has long had an All-America Rose Selections Display Garden, first at the Hill Farm location on the LSU campus and now at Burden Center in Baton Rouge. Many rose varieties have been evaluated over the years. |
| Burden Center: Home to Ornamental, Turfgrass Research Five years ago, the LSU AgCenter decided to dedicate a 20-acre site at Burden Center in Baton Rouge as a home for ornamental and turfgrass research and demonstration projects. And it has flourished ever since. |
| 2003-04 Landscape Performance Bedding Plants and Herbaceous Perennials Efforts in 2003 and 2004 included evaluation of cannas, coleus, angelonias, purslane, lantanas, perennial verbena, annual and perennial salvia, vinca, zinnias, melampodium, petunias, rudbeckia, phlox, daylilies, dianthus, ornamental kale, ornamental cabbage, calendula, violas, pansies, ornamental sweet potatoes, garden mums, African and French marigolds and others. |
| Sugarcane rind show promise as building material LSU AgCenter researchers recently completed a study that shows promise for the economic feasibility of using sugarcane rind as a supplemental raw material for manufacturing oriented strand board(OSB) and similar products. |
| Compost 'for the road' Highway construction moves a lot of dirt around, and with construction comes the potential for erosion. |
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