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Mums are popular for All Saints’ Day

[Video](10/25/19) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard Travels to Lacombe to find out how mums fit into All Souls' Day and All Saints' Day.
Persimmon: the other orange fall fruit

(10/25/19) Persimmons, in my humble opinion, are highly underrated fruit.
Use compost to replenish your potting soil

[Video](10/27/19) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Kerry Heafner shows you how to use your compost to replenish potting soil.
You can easily make your own compost

[Video](10/20/19) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Kerry Hefner shows you how to get a compost pile started and how you can maintain it.
Think outside the littleleaf boxwood

(10/11/19) Boxwood has been used extensively in formal gardens for centuries to create lines and shapes and as a frame that leads the garden visitor.
Greece is not the only place to grow olive trees

[Video] (10/13/19) Heather Kirk-Ballard explains on this edition of Get It Growing, you can grow olive trees right here in Louisiana too.
Super Plant Jolt dianthus gives long-lasting beauty

[Video] (10/6/19) Heather Kirk-Ballard explains why the latest Super Plant — Jolt dianthus — will help your garden pop with color for a long time.
It’s still hot . . . and dry

(10/04/19) The plants don’t lie. We see signs everywhere that our plants are suffering.

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