For success in your butterfly garden, learn about butterflies—identify the adults and caterpillars, their food preferences, and wh...
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Disease control is an important part of home lawn care. Diseases, insects, and weeds are all pests of home lawns. Chemical controls ...
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Many varieties of evergreen azaleas thrive in Alabama’s soils. Learn the best variety for your landscape along with tips on how to...
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Learn the best practices for inhibiting spread of this destructive disease, including recommended fungicides and rates for both co...
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Learn how to properly collect soil and root samples to test for nematodes.
Why Sample for Nematodes?
Sever...
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Most gardeners are familiar with problems caused by diseases and insects because such problems are easily recognized. Few gardeners,...
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The Auburn University Soil Testing Laboratory report includes: your intended crop(s), the soil group your sample belongs to, soil p...
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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...
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Within the last decade, Leyland cypress has been widely used in residential and commercial landscapes across Alabama not only as a specimen ...
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You’ve worked hard to grow healthy sweet potatoes. Keep them that way off the vine using these best practices.
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Learn about planting, rotating, fertilizing, harvesting, curing, and storing of garlic.
Garlic is a member of the large Lily family, whic...
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