“Mom, I feel like a bandit,” my 16-year-old daughter said as she adjusted her cloth face mask as we entered the grocery store. I’m glad she has kept her sense of humor. I wiped the handle on the grocery cart with a disinfecting wipe. I adjusted my mask and looked over at her. With ...
Editor’s note: NDSU Extension-Ward County introduces Kitty Torkelson who is the new horticulture assistant. She is available to answer horticulture questions now until early fall. Torkelson has been active in the Master Gardener program for 20 years and studied horticulture at the University of Minnesota before moving to North Dakota. A sure sign of spring is rhubarb breaking through the ground. Rhubarb is one of the earliest perennial plants. It seems like every year we have a week or two of really nice temperatures, which allows the rhubarb plants to shoot up; then the ...
One of the joys of life is eating fresh peas in the garden. You pick the pods, shell them and pop the peas into your mouth. Sweet and delicious! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, give it a try this spring. The cold weather this spring has delayed planting, and many of us will ...
“Do you need any rice?” I asked with a slightly muffled voice. I was strolling with my son in a grocery store. Both of us were wearing cloth face masks. “No, I’m good,” he replied. “I have 50 pounds.” I think he said 50 pounds, anyway. He laughed when he saw my wide eyes ...
North Dakota is a big state. In some places, trees are just beginning to bud out, while in other locations, they’re already done flowering and leaves have nearly fully expanded. Winter has barely left the northeast while spring arrived in the southwest awhile ago. What can we expect to ...
Cankerworm populations have been increasing in North Dakota for the past two years, and insect and forestry experts expect another population boom in 2020, according to NDSU Agriculture Communication information. Caterpillars of these insects defoliate a number of deciduous tree species, including ash, elm, linden and boxelder. “Caterpillars of cankerworms vary from light green to brownish green to black, with faint white-yellow lines running along the sides,” said Janet Knodel, North Dakota State University Extension entomologist. Pest management is most effective when ...
