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Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment

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Home Lawn & Garden Fact Sheets

  • 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

Home Lawn & Garden Resources

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    • Fruit Fact Sheets
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    • Trees & Shrub Fact Sheets
    • Vegetable Fact Sheets
    • Wildlife Management
  • Garden Clippings Newsletters
  • Food Gardening in Massachusetts 2020

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