COLLEGE STATION Years ago, the missions established by Spanish priests were restored around San Antonio and other places in South Texas. But avid heirloom gardeners said much restoration is left to do. Fully restored, the missions might have rows of corn, wheat, cotton, figs, grapes, beans and various fruit, all carefully irrigated by water-filled ditches,…
COLLEGE STATION — Years ago, the missions established by Spanish priests were restored around San Antonio and other places in South Texas. But avid heirloom gardeners said much restoration is left to do. Fully restored, the missions might have rows of corn, wheat, cotton, figs, grapes, beans and various fruit, all carefully irrigated by water-filled…
COLLEGE STATION — Most marketers would give up if told their product would only sell for 14 days out of the year — and a different two weeks each year at that. But that narrow market window hasn’t stifled Easter lily growers who pocket more than $38 million annually for their effort. The challenge is…
HOUSTON — Vegetable growers and researchers will join with medical scientists March 9 at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to focus on the future development of “designer foods for health.” The event will take place during the annual meeting of Texas A&M University’s Vegetable Improvement Center. The March 8-10 meeting will headquarter at the Sheraton Astrodome….
DENVER CITY — West Texas growers need to capitalize on their reputation for quality watermelons by borrowing a page from the playbook of cantaloupe producers in Pecos and growers of speciality crops in California and Florida, area melon producers were told during a day-long production short course here. A regional marketing program, developing product identity…
HEREFORD — The Texas High Plains produces a wide variety of quality vegetables, but the successful grower must look at his crop from the consumer’s viewpoint, speakers at the recent High Plains Vegetable Conference here told producers. “We have to move from a selling mindset to a marketing mindset,” said Dr. Charlie Hall, economist and…
DENVER CITY–The 1998 West Texas Watermelon Production Short Course, designed to provide growers new and useful information, will be held here Thursday at the Denver City Community Building. The day-long workshop begins with registration at 8 a.m. and concludes at 5 p.m. It is sponsored by the Yoakum County office of the Texas Agricultural Extension…
COLLEGE STATION — BetaSweet, the long awaited maroon carrots developed by Texas A&M University, will be commercially sold for the first time this week as select stores in Houston receive the first shipment from the Rio Grande Valley. “The biggest problem will be having enough,” said John Lackey, vice president of McManus Produce in Weslaco….
EAST TEXAS — Safe food supply provisions of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 may put an end to use of older pesticides commonly relied upon by East Texas fruit and vegetable growers. It may not seem so at first glance, but the banning of organophosphate and carbamate class pesticides could benefit both grower…
EAST TEXAS — Butterflies may be free, as the saying goes, but attracting them in large numbers to your garden requires careful attention to details and knowledge of butterfly esoterica. For example, it’s not commonly known, but butterflies see in the ultraviolet. Most plants have ultraviolet markings humans can’t see, but which act as landing…
