For the Freshest Vegetables BEANS If you plant in mid- to late spring, beans continue to set through most of the summer if you keep picking them. For best flavor, pick them when they are thinner than a pencil. — Tip: For variety, harvest some immature, or baby, beans and add them to salads. They have a slightly different flavor when they’re young. BROCCOLI Don’t wait for the broccoli in your garden to get as big as the ones...

GARDEN & HOME July Gardening Tips From Our Garden To Yours, Expect Success With Stutzmans Some Helpful Tips for Gardening in July The secret to a long summer flower show is deadheading — removing dead blooms on annuals, perennials, and roses. Snipping dead blossoms encourages the plant to form more flower buds.  Cut mums to 6” high in the first week of July. If annuals, like petunias, in your flower garden look scraggly and tired, cut them...

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Growing on the High Plains SKIP MANCINI PRODUCER AND HOST OF HIGH PLAINS HISTORY AND GROWING ON THE HIGH PLAINS I just came in from the bean rows with my giant colander filled with bounty. I’ve already put up six pints of snap beans and given away twice as many. I’ve served green beans at several meals and still have three bags full in the refrigerator, patiently awaiting their trip to a final destination in my freezer. This was the third...

PLANT OF THE MONTH Crape Myrtle “Crape Myrtles are well suited to our Kansas summers.” While I like all of the plants we grow here at Stutzmans, a personal favorite of mine is Crape Myrtle.  When most people think of Crape Myrtle, they envision the large shrubs and small to medium sized trees found in the Deep South.  Unfortunately, with our sometimes erratic and extreme winters they don’t grow like that here. ...