Currently Highlighted Resources:
Newsletter sign-up – join one or both:
- Pecan List – PNC pest alert and pecan show announcement – two emails per year
- Concho Valley Horticulture Update – Monthly e-newsletter on landscaping and gardening
Horticulture Information and Publications:
Vegetables
- Vegetable Planting Chart – by month
- Container Vegetable Gardening
- Urban Vegetable Gardening guide
- Harvesting and Handling Vegetables
- Collecting Vegetable Seeds – Hybrid Varieties
- Strawberry Growing Guide
- Controlling Insect and Mite Pests in Vegetable Gardens
- Collecting Vegetable seeds
Fruit and nuts
- Home Strawberry Production
- Recommended Fruits & Nut Varieties for Tom Green
- West Texas Pecan Management
- Controlling Insect and Mite Pests of Pecan Trees
- Controlling the Pecan Weevil
Lawn
- Controlling Khakiweed
- Establishing Turfgrass
- Take-All Root Rot of Lawns
- Chinch Bug Control
- Controlling White Grubs in the Lawn
- Water Wise Checklist for Turf in Summer
- Pre-Emergence Herbicides for the Home Lawn
Miscellaneous
- Mosquito Control Options
- Bee Removal Resources
- IPM Intro
- Recommended Landscape Plants
- How to Make a Rain Barrel
- Aphids in Texas Landscapes
- Dr. Bill Welch’s Summer 2020 Newsletter – Cut Flowers
- Collecting and Storing Wildflower Seeds
- Grasshoppers and Their Control – Extension Factsheet
- DIY Backyard Mosquito Control – Extension Factsheet
- Protecting Plants from Frosts and Freezes
Concho Valley Horticulture Update Newsletter Archive
Allison Watkins, County Extension Agent – Horticulture
About Us:
At Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, we are excited about the growing interest in home horticulture among Tom Green County residents!
To encourage local interest in environmental stewardship and home gardening, we offer a wide spectrum of literature and practical resources, host workshops and event throughout the Concho Valley area, and coordinate with the Concho Valley Master Gardener volunteer program.
Tom Green County’s Horticulture program holds free or low-cost seminars on gardening, landscaping and food preservation topics at various time throughout the year. These seminars help the public get more productivity and joy from their gardens, troubleshoot problems and develop environmentally sensitive gardening techniques.
Tom Green Horticulture works closely offering programs, workshops and seminars with the Master Gardeners, the People-Plant Connection, local schools and the City of San Angelo as well as Garden Clubs and other entities wanting in-depth horticultural programs.
Other Resources:
Texas Master Gardeners Association –
Concho Valley Master Gardeners –
