This week, host Richard Hentschel covers some “best management practices” when it comes to our spring flowering bulbs. We enjoy them year in and year out, yet often neglect them once the bloom is gone. It is the simple things that keep them healthy and happy.

Horticulture Educator Richard Hentschel talks about how our landscape plants faired this winter. We can always expect some damage on plants on the edge of their hardiness, but what was unexpected was the damage on our usually hardy plants.

Richard Hentschel, host of Green Side Up, helps explain the mystical frost free date when it comes to planting the home vegetable garden. Warming-loving vegetables put out too early can be killed by frosts, while cold-loving vegetables may bolt and go to seed if planted too late. Local conditions...

Horticulture Educator Richard Hentschel discusses how to keep all the leaves on your ornamental flowering crabapples and fruiting apples in the home orchard. Apple scab is one of the most common diseases impacting these trees, and protection is the name of the game.

Host Richard Hentschel discusses what you can do about your lawn and lawn mower long before you can start to mow. Doing some spring maintenance gets the lawn mower ready to go before you have to mow, and a general lawn clean-up will make the lawn look better even though it has not begun to grow...

In this episode, University of Illinois Extension Educator Richard Hentschel addresses how insects spend the winter. Despite our hopes of the winter taking out those insects for us, they have survived quite well. Richard talks about how and where overwintering insects can be found and the stage of...

Host Richard Hentschel continues his discussion of fruit trees for the yard and garden. Covered in this show are common questions, such as: Why has my fruit tree not produced flowers yet?” and “Are flower buds being killed over the winter?” He also will explain the complex issue of pollination,...

Richard Hentschel, host of GSU, changes gears from vegetables and seeds to fruit trees for 2021. Training your fruit trees has several benefits including easier spring pruning, quicker monitoring for insects and disease, encouraged fruit production, and overall easier management. This is the first...