Eight tasks for the winter season to ensure your landscape is ready for spring growth.
Remove finished and dead plants
Overwintering plant...
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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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Follow this planting guide for growing cooler-weather produce that thrives.
Many vegetables are well adapted to planting in...
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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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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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The word compost is derived from two Latin words meaning “together” and “to bring.” In one sense, it involves bringing together wast...
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The camellia has long been a pampered and cherished plant, considered more delicate and difficult to grow than it really is. Gardene...
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Learn to recognize, monitor, and manage thrips, a major pest of ornamentals. Thrips management requires thought about integration of control...
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Learn to recognize and then alleviate the effects that cold weather can have on ornamental and fruit trees.
Ornamental and fruit ...
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Protecting Pollinators in Urban Areas is a four-part series providing information and recommendations for the protection of pollinat...
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The fourth in the Protecting Pollinators in Urban Areas series focuses on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approaches to landscapin...
Read More about Protecting Pollinators in Urban Areas: Safe Use of Integrated Pest Management