Buckeye Yard and Garden onLine

May 22, 2008 PDF Print E-mail

From: Pam Bennett, Barb Bloetscher, Joe Boggs, Cindy Burskey, Jim Chatfield, Erik Draper, Dave Dyke, Gary Gao, David Goerig, Tim Malinich, Becky McCann, Amy Stone, and Curtis Young.

This is the 8th 2008 edition of the Buckeye Yard and Garden Line (BYGL). BYGL is developed from a Tuesday morning conference call of Extension Educators, Specialists, and other contributors in Ohio.

BYGL is available via email, contact Cheryl Fischnich [ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ] to subscribe. Additional Factsheet information on any of these articles may be found through the OSU fact sheet database [ http://plantfacts.osu.edu/ ].

BYGL is a service of OSU Extension and is aided by major support from the ONLA (Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association) [ http://onla.org/ ] and [ http://buckeyegardening.com/ ] to the OSU Extension Nursery, Landscape and Turf Team (ENLTT). Any materials in this newsletter may be reproduced for educational purposes providing the source is credited.

BYGL is available online at: [ http://bygl.osu.edu ], a web site sponsored by the Ohio State University Department of Horticulture and Crop Sciences (HCS) as part of the "Horticulture in Virtual Perspective." The online version of BYGL has images associated with the articles and links to additional information.

Following are the participants in the May 20th conference call: Pam Bennett (Clark); Barb Bloetscher (Entomology/C. Wayne Ellett Plant and Pest Diagnostic Clinic (CWEPPDC)); Joe Boggs (Hamilton/Piketon); Jim Chatfield (OSU Extension Center at Wooster/ Hort and Crop Science); Dave Dyke (Hamilton); Gary Gao (Delaware); Michael Loos (Cuyahoga); Tim Malinich (Lorain); Dave Shetlar (Entomology); Dave Sprootman (Rainbow Tree Care, Minneapolis MN); Nancy Taylor (CWEPPDC); Shawn Wright (OSU Piketon Centers); and Curtis Young (Allen).

In This Issue:

  1. WEATHERWATCH.
  2. HORT SHORTS: GDD (Growing Degree Days); Plants of the Week [Pansies and Violas; Iris or Flags; White Fringetree; Ground Ivy]; What's Wrong with the Annuals?; Raining Maple Seed; and To Phlox or Not to Phlox [Dame's Rocket].
  3. BUGBYTES: Four-Lined Plant Bug; Roses Bristling with Sawflies [Bristly Roseslug Sawfly; Roseslug; Curled Rose Sawfly]; Holy Oak Leaves! [Oak Shothole Leafminer]; Woolly Boolly Beech [Woolly Beech Leaf Aphid; Beech Blight Aphid]; Creeping Jenny Saw Flies! [Lysimachia Sawfly]; Fiery Predator [Fiery Searcher Caterpillar Hunter]; and Windshield Wipes [Boxwood Leafminer; Boxwood Psyllids; Eastern Tent Caterpillars; Forest Tent Caterpillars; Erineum Patch "Galls"; Bagworms].
  4. DISEASE DIGEST: Moist Chamber [Apple Scab; Artillery Fungus; Mayapple Rust] ; and Anthracnose Diseases.
  5. TURF TIPS: Bluegrass Billbug Control in Lawns; and Core Aeration in Lawn.
  6. INDUSTRY INSIGHTS: Sampling 101; and Borer Alert! [Clearwing Borers].
  7. COMING ATTRACTIONS: Landscape Diagnostic Workshop in Central Ohio; Total Plant Healthcare Workshop; Plant Diagnostic Academy; and Schnormeier Garden Tour.
  8. BYGLOSOPHY.
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