Tinisha Shade-Spain hosts her very first show… and ROCKS it, we might add.

This week the panel is talking about petunias, horse tail, mature oak trees, and boxwoods.

As soybean and cotton farmers across the Midwest and South continue to see their crops ravaged from the weed killer dicamba, new complaints have pointed to the herbicide as a factor in widespread damage to oak trees.

When people think about the landscape of central Illinois prior to European settlement they tend to think “prairie,” vast expanses of flat land covered in tall grass and tall flowers. And for the most part, that image is accurate. But groves of trees intruded on the grasslands here and there, especially on the eastern edges of rivers and streams, creating natural breaks to prairie fires driven by winds from the west.

From pruning to reining in, the panel discusses how to cut back for fall.