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Index to Articles in The Root
Find Articles in All Issues of The Root
Each month The Root, DCMGA’s premier gardening magazine, publishes articles on a variety of topics. To help you find articles in current and past issues of The Root, this page lists categories for articles that have appeared and a link that will take you directly to the starting page of the article. While you are at the article, you may also want to scroll through the other articles and features in a particular issue
Adaptive Gardening
Annuals
Become A Master Gardener
Bulbs
Children & Gardening
Composting & Mulching
Compost Your Way To A Successful Garden (5/2019)
Composting with Worms (8/2021)
Cover Crops (Updated from September 2022)
Eggshells in Your Garden (3/2024)
Garden Bed Preparation (4/2022)
Janet’s Corner – Mushrooms (10/2021)
Keyhole Gardening: A Simple Guide to Growing Healthy Food (2/2024)
Mulch Volcano – What It Is and Why It’s Bad (5/2019)
Preparing Your Plants for Cold Weather (11/2021)
Container Gardening
Cooking & Preserving
Decorating
Flowering Perennials
Fruits, Vegetables & Herbs
Add Flowers to Your Vegetable Garden for a Better Harvest (9/2024)
Brassica oleracea ‘Romanesco’ (9/2018)
Broccoli: A Cool Weather Favorite (2/2024)
Celebrity Tomato: Latest Texas Superstar (5/2021)
Fall Vegetable Gardening (7/2019)
Give Fall Vegetable Gardening a Chance (9/2020)
Growing & Using Cool-Season Herbs (11/2018)
Growing Blueberries in North Texas (5/2018)
Growing Tomatoes in the Fall (7/2020)
Guide to Fall Planting of Onions and Garlic in North Texas (11/2022)
The Heartburn and Glory of Growing Tomatoes (8/2024)
How To Be a Winner at a Fruit, Vegetable, and Flower Arrangement Show (5/2024)
How to Join or Start a Community Garden (7/2020)
It’s Time for Fall Vegetable Gardening (8/2023)
Making the Most out of Your Chile Pepper Harvest (10/2023)
Mexican Mint Marigold (4/2022)
October is Garlic Time (10/2024)
Parsley: Plant for People and Pollinators (3/2024)
Peach Tree Issues: Plum Curculio (5/2025)
Planning a Fall Vegetable Garden (7/2018)
Plant Mint to Keep Ants Out of the Garden (4/2024)
Potato Gardening Starts Now (2/2022)
Ready to Get Pickled? (6/2020)
Removing Tomato Suckers (5/2024)
Results of the 2023 Onion Research Project (11/2023)
Should I or Shouldn’t I Inoculate My Legumes This Season (4/2025)
Spring Vegetable Gardening (3/2020)
Spring Vegetable Gardening (3/2019)
Succession Planting: Living on the Wild Side of Cabbage (4/2024)
Taking Care of Tomato Plants (5/2024)
Thornless Blackberry Bushes (11/2019)
Tomato Blossom End Rot (7/2022)
Use Holiday Dates to Plant Vegetables (2/2024)
Vegetables for North Texas Gardens (2/2019)
Want a Great Fall Harvest? Plant Now! (8/2024)
What’s Ready to Harvest in November (11/2022)
Gardening for Wildlife
Creating Backyard Habitats: Birds and Bees, Flowers and Trees, Oh My! (11/2024)
Cultivating a Wildlife Winter Wonderland (1/2019)
iNaturalist: Helping to Steward the Land…One Observation at a Time (4/2023)
Landscape Maintenance is for the Birds (9/2019)
Migrating Insects and Birds (10/2023)
Pollinator-Friendly Gardens (5/2018)
Pond Life: The Interdependence of Species (5/2023)
Houseplants
Insects, Diseases & Pests
Beehive Removal Assistance (8/2018)
Caterpillars: Friends or Foes (7/2023)
Controlling Broadleaf Weeds (6/2022)
Emerald Ash Borer is Knocking on our Door (4/2019)
Got Pests? Control Them Safely with IPM (9/2021)
Grubs, Grubworms (What are These Creatures) (2/2025)
Honey on Insect Bites (March/2025)
Insects in Our Garden, The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly (8/2024)
Insects That Attack Trees (3/2021)
Lady Beetles (What are These Creatures) (March 2025)
Love the Fungus Among Us (9/2021)
Migrating Insects and Birds (10/2023)
Rooted in North Texas: Pest Patrol (5/2024)
Scare Away Rodents Using Predator Urine (8/2024)
Scary Looking Insects (Reprint) (4/2024)
Scary Looking Insects (5/2023)
Spray Plant Leaves with Milk to Cure Powdery Mildew? (7/2024)
Treating Plants with Aspirin (4/2025)
What Are These Creatures? Asparagus Beetles (4/2025)
What Creatures are These? Squash Pests (5/2025)
Invasives
Landscape Design
Assessing Freeze Damage (updated & expanded reprint) (March 2025)
Assessing Freeze Damaged Plants (3/2023)
Brighten Your Winter Landscape with Cool Season Color (2/2022)
Buttefly Garden Planning (6/2024)
Creating A Small Space Garden (6/2022)
Embrace Your Inner Artist (1/2020)
Fall Planting and Soil Amendments (11/2022)
Foodscaping: A Different Approach to Gardening (2/2023)
The Frustrated Gardener, Too Many Projects, Too Few Successes (7/2023)
Conquering North Texas Soil (Rooted in North Texas) (2/2025)
Landscaping to Reduce Fire Risk (6/2024)
Preparing Your Landscape For Spring (3/2023)
What to Do in the Yard & Garden After Summer Heat (9/2022)
What To Plant – Can You Help Me? (9/2018)
Why All the Fuss about Landscape Design? (10/2019)
Wildscaping in a Suburban Food Forest (7/2022)
Your Homeowners Association And What are you allowed to do in your Garden? (5/2023)
Lawn and Turf
Native & Adapted Plants
Clematis, Pruning and Feeding (8/2023)
Clematis, Right Plant, Right Place (7/2023)
Drought-Tolerant Summer Bloomers for North Texas (6/2023)
Ground Covers for Shade Areas (11/2021)
Growing Wildflowers from Seed (10/2018)
Growing Wildflowers from Seed 8/2022)
Hummingbird Feeder Plants (5/2019)
Including More Native & Adapted Plants (3/2019)
Lord Baltimore Hibiscus (8/2020)
Makes Your Yard a Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary (4/2022)
Meet the Abelias – Rose Creek and Kaleidoscope (8/2020)
Milkweed: The Good and the Problematic (3/2022)
Nature In Your Landscape (8/2019)
New to Texas Gardening Suggestions and Websites (9/2020)
Propagating Homestead Verbena (5/2020)
Purple Fountain Grass (11/2022)
Salvia ‘Henry Duelberg’ (6/2022)
Seed Bombs/Seed Ball Recipe (11/2019)
Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Daisy (4/2020)
Soft Leaf Yuccas vs. Red Yuccas (1/2021)
Superstars Defy Texas Heat (7/2018)
To Cut or Not to Cut: Fall Pruning Perennials (11/2023)
Texas SuperStar Plant Program Overview (2/2023)
Texas Superstar Plants (4/2019)
The Versatile Shade-Loving Japanese Painted Fern (10/2022)
To Cut or Not to Cut: Pruning Perennials (10/2021)
Virginia Creeper / Poison Ivy (4/2020)
Parks & Trails
Perennials
Propagation
Succulents
Tools
Toxic Plants
Trees & Shrubs
Afghan or Eldarica Pine Tree (10/2018)
Best Shade Trees for North Texas (11/2024)
Choosing a Shrub (Reprint) (3/2024)
Color of the Sun: The Peach Tree (9/2024)
February Rose Care Month (2/2020)
Growing Citrus Trees in North Texas (11/2018)
Growing Hollies in North Texas (8/2023)
Hiring a Certified Arborist (8/2022)
It’s Time to Prune Your Fruit Trees (2/2025)
Living Christmas Trees Graphic (11/2023)
Pecan Trees Don’t Produce (12/2018)
Planting Fruit Trees (11/2023)
Planting Trees in the Fall (10/204)
Post Oaks Dying/Rapid Decline (9/2019)
Sunscald and Sunburn in Trees (6/2021)
Texas Mountain Laurel (3/2019)
To Cut or Not to Cut: Fall Pruning Perennials (11/2023)
Tree Planting (Updated) (2/2022)
Tropical Plants
Water Conservation
Drip Watering Systems (6/2024)
Give a Drip and Water Less Y’all (5/2025)
Landscaping for Energy Conservation (7/2021)
Ollas: The Ancient Gardening Hack That Still Rocks! (4/2025)
Rain Barrel Maintenance (4/2019)
Raingardens for North Texas Landscapes (9/2021)
Saving Water – Educating HOAs (10/2019)
Self-Watering Planter Gardening: An Alternative Irrigation Method (7/2024)
Think Like A Raindrop (6/2019)
Water Conservation Project (2/2020)
The Water Issue in Texas (3/2022)
Water-Wise Wonders: Smart Gardening for Droughts and Downpours (Rooted in North Texas) (4/2025)