Home Lawn and Garden Information
Link to Home and Garden Resources
- Fact sheets on landscape and garden - flowers, vegetables, fruit, trees and shrubs and turf)
- Soil testing (for fee)
- Plant problem diagnostics (for fee)
- Newsletters for home gardeners
- Master gardener hotlines in Massachusetts
- Botanic gardens in Massachusetts
- Poisonings
- Conservation and Wildlife
UMass Extension provides informational resources, programs, and research data directly to Green Industry businesses and professionals, who in turn provide the information to the public via their customers. It is our goal to educate the professional, who in turn can better serve their clients and answer home gardening and landscape questions.
Fact Sheets
- Asian Longhorned Beetle
- Planting Tomatoes & Grafted Tomatoes
- Growing Tomatoes
- Hydrangeas: Pruning for Blooms
- Hydrangeas: Color and Fertilizing
- Watering New Plantings
- Fall Flowers: Mums and Annuals
- Fall Planting Trees and Shrubs
- Fall Plantings: Successful Care
- Holiday Plant Care Fall and Winter (Amaryllis, Cyclamen, Holiday Cactus, Paperwhites, Poinsettias)
- Holiday Plant Care Spring (Azalea, Rex Begonia, Spring bulbs, Easter lily, Primrose, Calceolaria, Cineraria)
- Pruning Shrubs
- Growing Herbs
- Easy Herbs
- Preserving Herbs
- Starting Seeds Indoors
- Caring for Seedlings
- Plan a Vegetable Garden
- Planting a Vegetable Garden
- Deer Resistant Plants
- Perennials, Continuous Color
- Annuals for Shade
- Annuals for Sun
- Colorful Container Gardens
- Clematis