Gardening App Review: Garden Tags

Use this Garden Tags app for: Identifying plants, looking at other peoples’ plant and garden photos, task reminders, social media for plants.   Who should use Garden Tags app: People who are looking for the Instagram of plant identification, but with a task feature.   Features of Garden Tags: Take a photo Upload a photo Look at other people’s photos …

Gardening App Review: Homegrown with Bonnie Plants

Use this Homegrown with Bonnie app for: Cataloging, making notes, logging, planning, tracking harvests, and discovering information about your gardens.   Who should use this Homegrown with Bonnie app: Beginning, intermediate, and experienced gardeners.   Features of Homegrown with Bonnie: Planning tool Growing journal Pest guide Plant guide with library Add your own plants Project guide How-to’s   Shortcomings of …

Summer Water Conservation

​As we approach the summer months each year, the City’s water consumption increases. Most of the increase is due to outdoor water usage. Outdoor water usage is dependent upon rainfall and the heat index experienced during the summer. Even during hot, dry periods, we can be smart about irrigating our lawn and landscape. Please irrigate on designated days only. This …

Gardening App Review: Gardenize

Use this Gardenize app for:  Entering notes about your garden into your phone.   Who should use this Gardenize app: People with very small gardens People who like to type on their phone or tablet People who want very detailed notes on their plants   Features of Gardenize: Planner feature Task feature Comprehensive data storage Clean and modern interface   …

Heat Stress

What is heat stress? Heat stress occurs when temperatures are sustained over a sufficient period of time as to cause irreversible damage to a plant’s functions and growth. Plants can be damaged by high day temperatures as well as high nighttime temperatures and by high air temperatures as well as high soil temperatures. A plants’ temperature typically runs just above …

Gardening App Review: Garden Answers

Use this Garden Answers app for: Identifying plants, interacting with horticulturist experts, browsing other people’s plant problems, plant shopping.   Who should use this Garden Answers app: Beginning, intermediate, and experienced gardeners.   Features of Garden Answers: Take a photo Upload a photo Look at other people’s photos   Shortcomings of Garden Answers: Very limited featureset    The Garden Answers …

Gardening App Review: Garden Time Planner

Use this Garden Time Planner app for: Planning your garden of Burpee plants, looking up planting information, organizing plants by bed, generating a task list, and checking weather.    Who should use this Garden Time Planner app:  Beginning gardeners Intermediate gardeners Advanced gardeners Gardeners who lose seed packets immediately after planting, TBH Burpee enthusiasts   Features of Garden Time Planner: …

Waterwise Ideabook

The Lubbock Master Gardeners Association has created garden designs for the water-wise plants we recommend for our area.   If you’re not sure where to start, or which plants might be right for your waterwise garden, don’t worry – we have you covered. Our team of experts have created a printable set of waterwise garden design plans  to help you get …