Extension
It Starts With Us
| 1031 - Home & Consumer Horticulture | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1031.1) | 2276 |
Number of participants engaged in home and consumer horticulture programming |
Author: Michele Stanton
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
Kenton County Extension Horticulture planted a Monarch Waystation in its Outdoor Education Center this spring. A waystation is a purposeful, planned garden habitat designed to provide larval host plants for Monarch egg-laying and larval development, and nectar and pollen-producing plants adult butterflies need. There is considerable science behind the pretty plantings—research into larval host nutrition, best plant species, insect mortality, adult feeding preferences, planting de
Author: Michele Stanton
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
One of the challenges in teaching horticulture is that there are so many bad examples of plant care practices in the landscape. People want to take good care of their yards and gardens, but as they copy what they see around them they may end of doing more harm than good—and not realize it. This is not restricted to my county, or Kentucky, or the Midwest. Everywhere I go, I can take pictures of glaring plant mistreatment. A common example is the mounding of mulch around
