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601 E. Centre Street
Rapid City, SD 57701
Phone: (605) 394-2188
Fax: (605) 394-6815

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Office Hours

Monday through Friday
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Master Gardener Hotline: (605) 394-6814

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The Mountain Pine Beetles that infect the Black Hills forest can kill an infected tree in one year.

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INFORMAL EDUCATIONAL ARM OF SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

Download Rick Abrahamson's Horticulture Radio Minutes

2011
2010

6/15/11

Aphids on Trees	Ash Anthracnose
Colored Plastic Mulch	Tomato Diseases
Volunteer Trees in the Yard

6/22/11

Cucumber and Melon Diseases	Galls on Plants
Tiny Grasshoppers - June Airing	Suckers on Crabapples and Other Trees

8/3/11

Apple Maggots - mid July	Mid-July Gardening Tips
Parasitic Wasps	Snakes in the Garden

8/9/11

Fall Gardening	Harlequin Bugs
Harvesting Garlic	Vertcillium Wilt
Clover in the Yard	Cucumber Problems
Earwigs	Pollination Problems and Weather

9/19/11

Bacterial Wilt of Curcurbits	Canning Produce
Control Of Crickets	Fall Gardening
Fall Lawn Care	Fall Lawn Fertilization
Frost Protection	Harlequin Bugs
Harvesting Garlic	September Gardening Tips
Squash Bugs	Using Organic Matter To Fertilize
Vertcilium Wilt

4/19/10

Planting Grass	First-Time Gardener
Fruit Trees are a Plus	Lawn Care Tips
Know Your Soil

4/19/10

Flowers You Can Eat	Aerating Your Yard
Dividing Perennials	Cold Season Vegetables
Weeding the Lawn

4/26/10

Corn Gluten Meal	Hay Bale Gardening
What To Plant in Early May	Planting Trees and Shrubs
When Organic Matter is Added to Soil

5/03/10

Apple Scab - air by mid-May	Crabgrass Control in Lawns
Cutworm Control in Gardens	Nightcrawlers in the Yard
Transplanting Tomatoes (air before 4/15)

5/10/10

Caring for Trees (air before mid-June)	Container Gardening
Garden Maintenance (air in May)	Tomato Varieties
Growing Gladiolus (air before end of May)

5/24/10

Moving Houseplants Outside for Summer	Ash Anthracnose
Fairy Rings	Emerald Ash Borer in Iowa
Transplanting Tomatoes (air by Memorial Day)	Mountain Pine Beetle
Aphids	Selecting Nursery Stock
Non-Living Agents Of Lawn Disease	Xeriscaping

6/07/10

Warm Season Vegetables (air by mid-June)	June Garden Maintenance
Carpenter Ants	Cedar Apple Rust
Leafcutter Bees

6/21/10

Black Roots on Strawberries	Blister Beetles
Cottony Ash Psyllids	Galls on Trees
Garden Crops That Suppress Weeds	Iron Chlorosis on Trees
Leaf and Shoot Blight on Poplar	Tomato Blights
Pruning Evergreen (air late June/early July)	Using Mulches in the Garden

6/28/10

Common Lawn Problems	Dutch Elm Disease
Fire Blight	Mosquito Control
Smart Watering

7/06/10

Deadheading Flowers	Flagging Junipers
Powdery Mildew	Spruce Insects
Rapid City Garden Walk - 7/6 - 7/9 only

7/19/10

Apple Maggots	Spittlebugs
Yellow Corn In The Garden
Ornamental Grasses for Four Season Interest
Mid-summer Gardening Tips - 2nd/3rd week of July

7/26/10

Blossom End Rot	Green Lacewing
Garden Pollination	Hail Damage
Mystery Tomato Problem

8/02/10

Bringing Flowers Inside - air in August	Corn Smut
Fall Gardening - air early to mid-August	Earwings
Grasshoppers - air early August

8/09/10

Cicadas	Controlling Thistle in the Lawn
Dividing Irises	Tips for Selecting Landscape Plants
Trees Impacted during Recent Storms

8/16/10

Deer Damage - late summer	Fall Webworm
Selecting Bulbs for Spring Bloom Part 1	Harvesting Onions
Selecting Bulbs for Spring Bloom Part 2

8/23/10

Chrysanthemums	Harvesting Potatoes
Fall Lawn Care	Pine Sawyer Beetles
Aeration - Letting Your Lawn Breathe and Eat

8/30/10

Late August Gardening Tips	Fall Tree Care Tips
Harvesting and Storing Tomatoes	Corn Earworm
Composting Fundamentals

9/06/10

Canning and Freezing Produce	Fall Yard Tips
Using Organic Matter to Fertilize	Apple Harvest and Storage
Dealing with Wasps in the Fall

9/13/10

Boxelder Bugs - Rite of Autumn	Canna Digging and Storage
Collecting and Drying Plant Material	Dividing Perennials
Harvest and Storage of Pears	Hedge Balls - Fact or Fiction
Protecting Plants from Frost	Taking a Soil Sample

9/27/10

Evergreen Turning Brown in Fall	Harvesting Pumpkins and Squash
Fall Lawn Care	Harvesting Garden Produce - air Late Sept/Early Oct
Fall Perennial Care	Planting Trees and Shrubs in Autumn
Home Invading Insects	Spruce Spider Mites Attack in the Fall

10/18/10

Christmas Cacti Care	Cleaning and Storing Garden Tools
The Codling Moth - air in October	Common Buckthorn
Deer Resistant Bulbs	Fall Tips for Flower Gardens
Growing Garlic - air in October	Keep Geraniums for Next Year
Leaf-Footed Bug	Mums in the Garden - air in Fall
Snow Mold - air late Fall	Voles
Winterizing Power Equipment

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