Looking for a prior link to Gardening/Lawn, Organic, Horticulture, Trees Fruits & Nuts, Pests/Insects or other horticulture links? Now find all those links on one page!
Gardening/ Nature Organizations
Hill Country Master Naturalists
Gardening
- Planning a Garden (pdf)
- Soil Preparation (pdf)
- Planting (pdf)
- Fertilizing (pdf)
- Composting (pdf)
- Growing Herbs in Texas (pdf)
- Texas Home Vegetable Gardening Guide (pdf)
- Vegetable Gardening in Containers (pdf)
- Managing Insect and Mite Pests in Vegetable Gardens (pdf)
- A Key to Common Caterpillar Pests of Vegetables (pdf)
- Building a Raised Bed Garden (pdf)
- Insect Control (pdf)
- Managing Insect and Mite Pests in Vegetable Gardens (pdf)
- Non-Chemical Control of Plant Diseases in the Home Garden (pdf)
- Lantana and Verbena: How to Combat Insect and Mite
- Using Seeds for Texas Vegetable Gardens (pdf)
- Gillespie County Vegetable Garden Planting Calendar
Lawn
- Keep Your Lawn Alive During Drought (pdf)
- Turfgrass Selection for Texas (pdf)
- Turfgrass Establishment for Texas (pdf)
- Maintaining Bermudagrass (pdf)
- Bermudagrass Varieties, Hybrids, and Blends for Texas (pdf)
- Maintaining St. Augustinegrass (pdf)
- Fertilizing Texas Lawns (pdf)
- Lawn Fertilization_Environmental Impact (pdf)
- Protecting the Environment – Using Integrated Weed Management in Lawns (pdf)
- Thatch Management for Home Lawns (pdf)
- Take-All Root Rot (pdf)
- Lawn Water Management (pdf)
- White Grubs in Texas Turfgrass (pdf)
High Tunnel Specialty Crops
- High Tunnels for Crop Production in Texas (pdf)
- Specialty Crops for High Tunnel Production in Texas (pdf)
Organic
Texas A&M Agrilife – Organic: https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/organic/
Website has a lot of information on growing organic vegetables, farming, and gardening as well as raising cattle and poultry organically.
Using Compost for Erosion Control and Revegetation (pdf)
Non Traditional Soil Additives (pdf)
Land Application of Organic Fertilizers or Amendments (pdf)
Pests
Bats
- Controlling Bats (pdf)
Birds
Snakes
- Snakes & Their Control (pdf)
Squirrels/Moles/Gophers/Nutria/Armadillo
- Controlling Tree Squirrels in Urban Areas (pdf)
- Controlling Ground Squirrel Damage (pdf)
- Controlling Mole Damage (pdf)
- Managing Pocket Gopher Damage (pdf)
- Managing Nutria Damage (pdf)
- Managing Armadillo Damage (pdf)
Insects
- Easy Gardening: Insect Control(pdf)
- Scale Insects of Ornamental Plants(pdf)
- Pantry and Fabric Pests in the Home (pdf)
- Grasshoppers and their Control 2024(pdf)
Ants
- Managing Household Ant Pests(pdf)
- Fire Ant Control: Two Step Method (pdf)
- Emtomology Update: Fire Ant Bait(pdf)
- Carpenter Ants (pdf)
- Red Harvester Ants (pdf)
Termites
- Drywood Termites (pdf)
- Subterranean Termites (pdf)
- Formosan Subterranean Termites (pdf)
- Desert Termites (pdf)
Mites
- Common Insect and Mite Pests of Humans (pdf)
- Managing Insect and Mite Pests in Vegetable Gardens (pdf)
- Managing Insect and Mite Pests of Commercial Pecans in Texas(pdf)
- Lantana and Verbena: How to Combat Insect and Mite Pests (pdf)
Flies
- Controlling Houseflies (pdf)
- Drain Flies (pdf)
Kissing Bugs
- Kissing Bugs in Texas (pdf)
- Never Kiss a Kissing Bug (pdf)
- Kissing Bugs and Chagas Disease in the Southern US (pdf)
- Chagas Disease and Canines (pdf)
Other insects:
- Boxelder Bugs and Red-Shouldered Bugs (pdf)
- Centipedes and Millipedes (pdf)
- Aphids in Texas Landscapes (pdf)
- White Grubs in Texas Turfgrass (pdf)
- A Key to Common Caterpillar Pests of Vegetables (pdf)
- Bed Bugs (pdf)
Website has a great deal of information on how to identify a tree, how trees grow, and much much more.
Texas A&M Agrilife Extension – Fruit and Nut Fact Sheets
Website has a great deal of pdf publications available to the public at no cost. Information is available from apples to walnuts and includes publications on pecans, grapes, and peaches.
Tree Fruits in the Texas Hill Country
Growing Tree Fruits At Home In The Texas Hill Country (pdf) – publication by Mr. John A. Lipe which discusses the site selection, planting, and maintenance of fruit trees such as peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, cherries, apples, pears, jujubes, persimmons, figs, olives, and pomegranates.
Peaches
- Peaches(pdf)
- Homeowner’s Guide to Pests of Peaches, Plums, and Pecans (pdf)
- Pests of Peaches, Plums, and Pecans (pdf)
Pomegranates (pdf)
Aggie Horticulture Fruit Page
Herbicide Mixing Guide (pdf)
Fruit & Nut Disease Control Products for Use in Texas (pdf)
Texas Chapter International Society of Arboriculture
Oak
Pecan
- Controlling the Pecan Weevil (pdf)
- Controlling the Pecan Nut Casebearer (pdf)
- Managing Insect and Mite Pests of Commercial Pecans in Texas (pdf)
- Commercial Pecans_ Controlling Rosette, Diseases and Zinc Deficiency (pdf)
- Fact Sheet: Improved Pecans (pdf)
- Fact Sheet: Native Pecans(pdf)
Additional publications can be found by visiting Aggie Horticulture and AgriLife Learn . You can type in the topics that you are looking for in the search field.