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Practice patience
This winter has been particularly worrisome and as gardeners, we have wanted to do something — anything — to ensure our plants survive and thrive. However, right now, we have to practice patience.
- Wait to rake your lawn. Raking now can stress your lawn and rake up live plants.
- Wait to plant until the soil is truly workable.
- Hold off on any kind of grub treatment until (1) you know you have grubs in your lawn and (2) mid-summer when Japanese beetle grubs are most vulnerable.
However, you can be pruning oaks and fruit trees this month, ordering seeds and plants from your favorite grower, starting seeds, and dormant seeding your lawn (including bee lawn seed).
Visit the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum flower to get your indoor flower fix!
This is the third consecutive year of drought across much of the state, and successive years of drought can compound stress on trees. There are steps you can take to reduce drought stress on your woods.
Extension foresters provide recommended tree and plant lists for east-central Minnesota.
This is the best time of the year to encourage a healthy lawn next year through proper fertilization and weed control.
Thinking of soil testing in the spring? Consider testing this fall when the Soil Testing Lab has a smaller backlog of samples to test, results are just as accurate, and you can be ready for planting as soon as the soil thaws.
Have some of your plants lost color? Are they growing in bizarre shapes? Is the quality of your vegetables poor? You may have an outbreak of aster yellows.
Find climate-resilient, native trees and plants for the St. Louis Moraines and Tamarack Lowlands regions of Minnesota.
This new, easy-to-follow video shows you how to interpret your soil test results report from top to bottom.
Bushy cucumber plants with no fruit, tomatoes not ripening, and beans with no flowers? We answer questions about your poorly yielding vegetable garden.
A member of the milkweed family, this plant is toxic to some insects, including monarch butterflies.
Find out how to prioritize what to water, and how to reuse water safely to keep landscapes healthy during extreme drought conditions.
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