Extension Employee News

HGIC – Horticulture – Team Highlight

HGIC has another record-breaking month. October 2020 shows that the traffic to HGIC is not slowing down anytime soon.

  • Total phone calls answered 928 (answered 665 calls in Oct 2019)
  • Total emails answered 851 (answered 350 emails in Oct 2019)

Website Pageviews 529,531 (pageviews 238,882 in 2019)

Top 10 Topics for Calls and Emails:

  • Lawn Problems
  • Landscape Problems
  • Soil test
  • Trees
  • Misc.
  • Plant ID and Weed ID
  • Small Fruit, Tree Fruit & Nut Crops
  • Turfgrass
  • Shrubs and Vines
  • Wildlife

Top 10 Pageviews on Website:

  • Bermudagrass Yearly Maintenance Program
  • Tomato Diseases & Disorders
  • Zoysiagrass Maintenance
  • St Augustinegrass Maintenance
  • HGIC Home Page
  • Houseplant Insects & Related Pests
  • Changing pH of Soil
  • Centipedegrass Yearly Maintenance Calendar
  • Identifying Copperhead Snakes
  • Overseeding with Ryegrass

Submitted by: Millie Davenport, Director of HGIC and Cory Tanner, Horticulture Program Team Director