Grass Seed Label

You don't always get what you pay for. I found this seed which you wouldn't want to plant for a lawn here in Kansas for $7 a pound. Good grass seed is only $2 a pound. This seed label tells us why I don't want it for a lawn. Other crop seed is 2.58%. A preferred package would contain less than .5%. Other crop indicates other grasses than what is on the label. That means weeds. None of the cultivars are on the K-State recommended turfgrass list. The seed could be used for temporary cover.

Youth Activities Fair

Visit with Riley County 4-H members and Riley County 4-H teen Ambassadors at Manhattan Town Center's Youth Activities Fair on Saturday, August 14.

The fair will be conducted in the center fountain area, located on the west side. School age youth are invited to come and check out what 4-H has to offer from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. that day. Various 4-H clubs will be present throughout the day to showcase project work, and invite you to join their club!

Riley County 4-H is home to 13 community based clubs and three project clubs. So, no matter where you live -- there is a club near you!

The 4-H year begins on October 1, 2010, and we hope you become a part of the Riley County 4-H action!

Webworms

Fall webworms are becoming noticeable in several of my trees. The picture is of our black walnut. They are also in the pear and crabapple.

My management strategy is to do mostly nothing. I did reach in and take them out of the pear tree so that the leaves can continue to feed the fruit.

Sticking something into the web and pulling the web and the weborms out works. Insecticides could be used once the web is removed but most of the worms fall out along with the removing of the web.

To view publication on webworms go to http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/library/entml2/mf2395.pdf