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