Field day features horticultural research tours
May 19, 2008Contact Information:
Victor Ford, Resident Director, Southwest Research and Extension Center
870-777-9702 / vford@uaex.edu
Fred Miller, Agricultural Communication Services
479-575-5647 / fmiller@uark.edu
HOPE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture will hold a horticulture field day June 5 at the Southwest Research and Extension Center near Hope.
The afternoon field day will feature field tours of research projects, a barbecue dinner and a “walk-in” plant disease clinic for home, garden and lawn plants.
The field tour topics include:
• blackberry and peach breeding update,
• fertilizer recommendations for southern orchards,
• how to pick up right plants for southern Arkansas yards,
• manage tomato nematode with biofumigation crops, and
• lawn and turf weed management.
An indoor session on vegetable garden disease management will follow the field tours. A complimentary dinner will be at 6:20 p.m. and the plant disease clinic will follow it. Participants are invited to bring their problems plants in for diagnosis.
Please RSVP by May 27 by calling 870-777-9702, extension 109, or by e-mail at qchen@uaex.edu.
The Southwest Research and Extension Center is located north of Hope on Arkansas Hwy. 174.