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August 2002, Vol 1 Issue 9 Purdue Extension GardenTIPS E-NewsletterWelcome to the Garden TIPS E-Newsletter. Listed below are tips and links to articles. Follow the links to the GardenTIPS Web site for more information and links at: http://www.extension.purdue.edu/gardentips/ ===================================================== Hot Weather Tough on Plants and Gardeners Sultry summer weather is not only tough on gardeners, but on our plants as well. In addition to garden and landscape plants gasping for water, some vegetable crops have trouble producing when under stress. Tomatoes, peppers, melons, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers and beans often drop their blossoms without setting fruit when day temperatures are above 90 degrees F. There's not much you can do but wait for cooler temperatures to prevail. As more favorable conditions return, the plants will resume normal fruit set. Sweet corn is also likely to have trouble setting fruit in such hot weather. Unfortunately, you only get one flush of flowering with corn; so, if your plants just happen to be shedding pollen when the weather is stressful, you can expect poor ear fill later. Full Story, http://www.extension.purdue.edu/gardentips/ =====================================================
Operation Thistle teaches horticulture to young gardeners Dr. Thistle kidnapped Queen Flora – or at least that is the story Junior Master Gardeners in grades six through eight will hear as part of Operation Thistle. The Junior Master Gardener program educates children in horticulture and environmental science, as well as teaching leadership and life skills. The story starts as Col. Maranta, a praying mantis guide, briefs Agent 9, also known as a Junior Master Gardener, on Operation Thistle. Agent 9 must learn about plant growth and development in order to rescue Queen Flora from Dr. Thistle's lair in the Black Spore Swamp. "Thistle is no petunia," Col. Maranta said. "This stickler means business." Full Story, http://www.extension.purdue.edu/gardentips/kids.html ===================================================== Hola Bagworms
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