Lawn and garden

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Helping others learn to grow

Master Gardeners love gardening and have gardening experience. They help find environmentally sound gardening and landscape solutions and answer questions about home horticulture.

Natural lawn care

Increasing numbers of homeowners are inquiring about low-impact environmental approaches to lawn care. Using natural or environmentally friendly products seems to be the direction many are taking to maintain their lawns.

Many hands make light work

Gardening with others can be both rewarding and challenging. Use the Community Gardening Toolkit to plan, enhance and sustain your community gardening project.

Lighting indoor plants

Indoor plants depend on proper artificial lighting to keep them alive, especially during the shorter days of winter. Artificial light can keep plants growing strong indoors, but the right place for decoration is not always the right place for plant health.

News

• Fruit with bacterial spot not pretty, but safe to eat
  Wednesday, June 24, 2009
  COLUMBIA, Mo.—Consumers used to picture-perfect fruit at the supermarket might shy away from homegrown or locally produced fruits blemished by a common disease of peach, nectarine, apricot or plum, but fruits affected by bacterial spot are safe to eat.
  
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• Is it time to water the lawn?
  Monday, June 22, 2009
  COLUMBIA, Mo. – Most Missouri lawns have had plenty of water during this year’s cool, wet spring, so homeowners may not be thinking of how to properly irrigate those lush, green lawns now that the year’s first summer heat blast has arrived.
• Don't overwater heat-stressed plants
  Tuesday, June 9, 2009
  COLUMBIA, Mo. –Landscape plants have flourished over an ideal spring. Azaleas and hydrangeas have never looked better, but many of the lush leaves that developed during the mild weather will scorch, turn brown or even fall off when the summer heat returns, said a University of Missouri Extension horticulturist.

Web Sites

The following are general-interest lawn and garden Web sites from the University of Missouri. Browse the menu on the left for sites on more specific lawn and garden topics.

• College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
• Master Gardener
• Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory

Publications

The following are general-interest lawn and garden publications. Browse the menu on the left for more specific lawn and garden publications.

• CB2, Grounds for Gardening Guide Book
• EQM105F, Yard and Garden Care: How It Affects Your Health and Environment (Fact Sheet)
• EQM105W, Yard and Garden Care: How It Affects Your Health and Environment (Work Sheet)
• G6954, Soil Testing for Lawns
• G6999, Grounds for Gardening Index and Table of Contents
• MG0, Master Gardener Core Manual Series
• MG2, Plants and Their Environment
• MG4, Soils, Plant Nutrition and Nutrient Management

You may be interested in these related publications:

• MP555, Horticulture Soil Sample Information
• MP906, Community Gardening Toolkit
• MWPS21, Home and Yard Improvements Handbook