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From The Ground Up
When planning a landscape, it's tempting to pick the most colorful, vibrant plants. An eye-popping property filled with yellows, purples, pinks, and other bold colors is sure to catch anyone's eye. However, the right plant for a property is not always the most colorful.
Gardening novices can easily...
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Use raked leaves as mulch around trees, shrubs and perennials. Save time later this fall by cleaning empty rain barrels now.
A few weeks ago, we published an article about watering wisely in drought. Basic practices like watering in the...
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Aphids are good candidates for control with soap.
Any place gardeners gather to talk about plants, there will be talk of soap. Dish soap and water are often referred to as the holy grail for managing insects from aphids to Japanese...
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A bumblebee foraging on self-heal
UMN Extension has new materials on everything you need to know to grow your own bee lawn! UMN researchers have spent several years studying bee lawns and the pollinators that benefit from them. These...
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Depending on your market, you are a month or two out from pumpkin prime-time. After dodging the early season weeds and persistent cucumber beetles, it can be tempting to focus on other crops or prepping for fall visitors. However, this...
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In this week's fruit update:
Japanese beetles
Apples
Grapes
Day-neutral strawberries
June-bearing strawberries
Help direct research and Extension priorities for Japanese beetles:
Japanese beetles feeding and mating on an apple...
Fresh fruits and vegetables can be grown at home with relative ease. Home gardening also puts complete control into the hands of individuals who want to know how the foods they eat were grown and treated, providing a greater measure of control over their diets. A sense of pride also comes from...
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Over the past week, most of Minnesota has been blanketed by unhealthy concentrations of wildfire smoke from fires burning in Canada and northern Minnesota. Climatologists predict that wildfire smoke frequency and intensity will increase...
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Many regions of the state are in moderate to severe drought, which is impacting water tables and wells. Are you seeing changes to your water table or wells running dry? Are you making changes on your farm because of a dropping water table...
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Pruning is generally good for trees because it promotes their health. It can also improve the tree’s size and form. However, consider waiting to prune until drought conditions improve.
When trees are stressed, such as during a drought,...
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