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There's still time to plant annual flowers to beautify your landscape and attract pollinators to your garden.
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Here is a set of guidelines for midsummer and hot weather fertility management in lawns, flowers, trees and shrubs, vegetables and fruit.
Try renovating your strawberry patch this year and see how much better your yield and plant health are next year!
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No matter what amount of gardening space you have, you can grow plants you love and want to eat and that also support pollinators.
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While looking at the future’s weather can be a bit like peering into a crystal ball, how plant diseases work is more clear. For a disease to show up in yard and garden plants, three things need to be present. Plant pathologists refer to this as the disease triangle.
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In Minnesota, we can usually rely on rain to provide adequate moisture for lawns. But our recent record-breaking temperatures require water conservation. Here are some strategies for keeping lawns healthy during drought.
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All fruit crops benefit from regular watering. Even if the plants look healthy and productive at a glance, hidden impacts of water stress can cause problems that we cannot see right away.
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Insects have an ideal range of temperatures in which to complete their life cycles. Which ones are loving the heat? And what does that mean for your garden?
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Adding beneficial microbes to your soil might give your garden a needed boost. Here are some tips to foster healthy soils, so you also foster healthy soil microbes, making amendments unnecessary.
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Ground covers can cover an area of your yard or garden for one season, a few seasons, or many years. They reduce weed pressure and add beauty, and also enhance soil health, provide food and habitat for pollinators, and reduce soil erosion.
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