How can I keep “bad” bugs out of my garden and attract “good” bugs? How can I control slugs and other soil insect pests? What insect...
Read More about Garden Bugs: Insect Pest Management in Home Vegetable Gardens
The Alabama Cooperative Extension System creates integrated pest management guides for major row crops; small and stored grains; pastures a...
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Learn how to successfully grow landscape plants, including planting, watering, fertilizing, and pruning.
Shrubs and trees add beauty to h...
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This is the second in the Restoring Storm-Ravaged Trees series. Learn how to determine the safety of your trees.
The first step towar...
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A New Set of Garden Tools
These guidelines help give uniformity, consistency, and integrity to the identity and image of the Alabama Cooper...
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Learn about the biology, damage, and management of the fall armyworm, a reported annual pest on crops in the Southeast for more than...
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Mole crickets have become the most destructive insect pest on turf and lawns in Gulf Coast states. Damage and replacement costs for ...
Read More about Biology and Control of Mole Crickets
The Auburn University Soil Testing Laboratory report includes: your intended crop(s), the soil group your sample belongs to, soil p...
Read More about Home Soil Testing: Using The Soil Test Report
Learn about selecting containers and potting mixtures, as well as planting, fertilizing, and watering. Gain tips for mixed-plant con...
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There are a number of considerations to be made when preparing to grow vegetable transplants for your home garden, including sowing the seed...
Read More about Keys to Producing and Selecting Quality Vegetable Transplants
In the 1940s, the occurrence of fusiform rust (Cronartium quercuum f.sp. fusiforme) was so rare that forest pathologists had not yet develop...
Read More about Managing Fusiform Rust on Loblolly and Slash Pine in Forest and Landscape Settings
You’ve worked hard to grow healthy pumpkins and winter squash. Keep them that way off the vine using these best practices.
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Read More about Harvesting, Curing, and Post Harvest Care of Pumpkins and Winter Squash