Home Lawn & Garden Fact Sheets
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A Guide to Weed Life Cycles
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Annual Grassy Weed Control for Lawns
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Annuals for Shade
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Annuals for Sun
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Ants in Lawns
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Apples: A High Density Growing System for the Home Garden
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Asparagus - growing tips
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Bagged Potting Mixes and Garden Soils for Home Gardeners
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Beneficial Insects and Mites from Greenhouses to You
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Beneficial Lawn Insects
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Billbugs in Lawns
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Biology and Management of Crabgrass
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Bird Protection for Blueberries and Other Fruit
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Blueberries As Landscape Plants
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Boxelder Bug
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Bramble Fruit
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Broadleaf Plantain in Lawns
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Buckhorn Plantain in Lawns
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Cabbage Maggot
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Care for Cut Flowers
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Carrots - growing tips
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Chinch Bugs in Lawns
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Clematis
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Colorado Potato Beetle
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Colored Bark Mulch
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Colorful Container Gardens
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Common Blue Violet in Lawns
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Common Chickweed in Lawns
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Compaction and Cultivation
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Companion Planting in the Vegetable Garden
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Container Gardening with Fruit
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Container Gardening with Vegetables
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Cover Crops - growing tips
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Crabgrass Management: Homeowner Options
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Cucumbers - growing tips
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Currants and Gooseberries in Massachusetts
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Currants and Gooseberries: Prohibited Towns in Massachusetts
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Dandelions in Lawns
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Deer Resistant Plants
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Disease Management for Home Lawns
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Disease Management in the Home Vegetable Garden
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Disease Management in the Home Vegetable Garden Chart
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Drop Spreader Calibration Procedures
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Drought Tolerant Annuals and Perennials
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Easy Herbs - growing tips
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Endophyte-Enhanced Grasses
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Fall Color in New England
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Fall Flowers
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Fall in the Vegetable Garden
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Fall Planting for Trees & Shrubs
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Fall Plantings, Successful Care
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Fall Soil Amendment
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Fertilizing Flower Garden Plants
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Fertilizing Guidelines
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Fertilizing the Vegetable Garden
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Fragrance in the Garden
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Fruit Trees: Failure to Bear Fruit
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Gardening to Support Pollinators
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Gardening to Support Pollinators
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Garlic - growing tips
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Grapes: Seedless Table Varieties
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Ground Ivy in Lawns
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Growing Garlic: Getting Started
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Growing Herbs
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Growing Tips: Hydrangeas, Color and Fertilizing
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Growing Tips: Hydrangeas, Pruning for Blooms
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Growing Turf Under Shaded Conditions
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Grub Control in Lawns: Neonicotinoids and Bees
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Harvesting Vegetables
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Heirloom Vegetable Varieties
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Herb Preservation
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Holiday Plant Care - Fall and Winter
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Holiday Plant Care - Spring
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Homeowners’ Guide to Cranberry Vine Propagation
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Impatiens Downy Mildew in Home Gardens
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Insect Management in the Home Vegetable Garden
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Late Blight Management for Fall, Winter and Spring
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Late Blight on Tomatoes and Potatoes
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Late Season Establishment Considerations
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Lawn Mowing
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Lawn Renovation & Overseeding
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Lily Leaf Beetle Lilioceris lilii
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Lingonberry: An Attractive Landscape Plant and a Unique Small Fruit
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Maintenance of Fruit Plantings: Preparing for Winter
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Maintenance of Fruit Plantings: Spring Tasks
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Management of Compaction: Coring
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Management Tips to Improve Turfgrass Drought Survival
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Managing Earwigs and Slugs
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Managing Earwigs and Slugs in the Vegetable Garden
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Maximizing Irrigation Efficiency and Water Conservation
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Melons - growing tips
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Mole and Vole Damage to Lawns
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Monitoring Lawn Insects
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Mulch: Using Colored Plastic Mulches in the Vegetable Garden
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Mulching and Weed Management in the Urban Landscape
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Mulching Fruit
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Native Fruits for the Home Garden
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Onions and Related Crops - growing tips
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Organic Fertilizers for the Garden
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Peaches: An Excellent Fruit for Southern New England
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Peas - growing tips
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Peppers - growing tips
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Perennials for Continuous Color
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Planning a Vegetable Garden
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Plant Identification - Online Resources
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Planting a Vegetable Garden
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Planting for Pollinators
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Planting tomatoes & grafted tomatoes
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Problem Soils
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Protecting Bees and Pollinators from Pesticides in Home Gardens and Landscapes
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Pruning and Ladder Safety
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Pruning Fruit Tree Basics
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Pruning Fruit Trees: Rules of Shoot Growth
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Pruning Shrubs
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Pumpkins and Squash - growing tips
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Raised Beds
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Red Thread and Pink Patch
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Rhubarb - growing tips
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Root Crops - growing tips
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Rotary Spreader Calibration Procedures
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Season Extenders
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Secondary Wood-Rotting Pathogens of Stressed Oaks
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Seed Saving
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Seeding Rate Considerations
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Selection of Grasses
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Sod Webworms
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Soil Lead: Testing, Interpretation, & Recommendations
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Soil pH and Liming
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Speedwells in Lawns
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Starting Seeds Indoors
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Starting Seeds Indoors: Caring for Your Seedlings
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Storage of Vegetable Crops
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Strawberries Through the Whole Growing Season
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Summer Squash - growing tips
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Sweet Corn - growing tips
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The Snow Molds
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The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map – Changes in the 2012 Edition
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Tomato Growing I
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Tomato Growing II
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Tomato Problems: Early Blight
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Tomatoes - growing tips
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Tomatoes: Ten Tricks for Growing Better Tomatoes
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Transport of Privately-owned Houseplants Into and Out of Massachusetts
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Tree Fruit: Determining the Optimum Time to Harvest
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Trellis Construction to Grow Fruit
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Turf Irrigation and Water Conservation
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Turfgrass Response to Water Deficits
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UMass Extension's Best Management Practices for Lawn & Landscape Turf
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Understanding a Turf Fertilizer Label
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Understanding a Turfgrass Seed Label
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Vegetable Planting Chart
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Water Conservation in the Home Garden and Landscape
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Watering New Plantings
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What are Genetically Modified Organisms - GMOs?
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What is Organic Gardening?
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What is Thatch?
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What's Growing On My Mulch
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What's Wrong With My Lawn?
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What’s Eating My Vegetables?
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When Can I Plant Flowering Plants in Spring?
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White Clover in Lawns
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White Grub Identification
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Wildlife: Excluding and Repelling Problem Wildlife from the Garden
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Woodland Border Wildflower Garden
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Xeriscaping for Massachusetts