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Low-Maintenance Landscaping
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Create a beautiful, low-maintenance landscape with thoughtful design, proper plant selection, and easy-to-care-for features that suit your space and lifestyle.
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High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 02
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Maintaining healthy, nonstressed plants, managing the high tunnel environment properly, preserving beneficial insects and early pest detection will prevent many pests from becoming a problem within the high tunnel.
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Steps in Fertilizing Garden Soil: Vegetables and Annual Flowers
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Learn how to test soil, apply fertilizers, and maintain nutrient levels for healthy vegetable and flower gardens.
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High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 05
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Within two weeks after transplanting, begin scouting for cucumber beetles in the high tunnel. Use yellow sticky traps to detect cucumber beetles.
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Making and Using Compost
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Making compost transforms garden waste into a nutrient-rich soil conditioner, enhancing soil structure and fertility while reducing landfill use.
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High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 08
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Thrips are small, elongated insects that can be a serious insect pest of high tunnel melons and watermelons and are usually found clustered in flowers and on the underside of leaves.
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Budding
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Budding is a grafting technique where a single bud is inserted into a plant stock, used to propagate fruit trees and ornamental plants. The best time is fall.
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Growing Azaleas and Rhododendrons
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Discover essential tips for selecting, planting, and caring for azaleas and rhododendrons in Missouri's challenging climate.
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Watermelon Bacterial Fruit Blotch
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Bacterial fruit blotch causes dark green blotches on watermelons, leading to rind rupture and decay; manage with clean seeds and sanitation.
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Garden 'n Grow: Leader Handbook
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The Garden ’n Grow Leader Handbook is designed to be used as curriculum for the Missouri Garden ’n Grow Program.
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High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 03
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Melon aphids congregate on lower leaf surfaces and cause cupping of the leaves
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High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 06
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The dry, humid and dense plant growth within a high tunnel is optimal for development of powdery mildew.
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Grass Clippings, Compost and Mulch: Questions and Answers
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Yard waste is valuable landscape resource. Visit our site for our Grass Clippings, Compost and Mulch: Questions and Answers resource.
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High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 09
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Whiteflies are small, soft-bodied insects with wings covered with white, powdery wax that damage plants by sucking the sap and transmitting harmful viruses.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Uncommon Trees for Specimen Plantings
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Check out some uncommon landscape trees that have a good chance for survival in the Missouri climate.
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Pruning Ornamental Shrubs
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Learn effective techniques for pruning ornamental shrubs, including timing, tool selection, and maintenance tips to promote healthy plant growth.
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Buying a Horse
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Carefully plan your horse purchase with tips on budgeting, selecting, and evaluating horses, and ensuring long-term success in horse ownership.
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Community Pleasure Trail Riding
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Missouri has many scenic and challenging trails for riders. Many areas with streams, rivers, hills and trees have numerous trails on which local groups can ride.
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Haltering and Tying Horses
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Halters are designed to help catch, hold, lead and tie horses and ponies. A rider may choose to have a specific halter for each horse, or they can select one of the correct size and adjust it to fit any horse.
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Tips for Pony Pleasure Drivers
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Who hasn't had visions of driving or riding a pony? It is one of the easiest, most economical and most rewarding horse experiences you can have.
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Miniature and Hunting Mules of Missouri
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Miniature and hunting mules are gaining popularity in Missouri. Learn about their characteristics, behavior, and training methods.
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Community Gardening Toolkit
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Learn how to plan, start, and maintain a successful community garden with tips on organizing, site selection, funding, and long-term management.
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Community Gardening Toolkit, Page 6
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Download sample community gardening forms and find myriad resources to guide your vision.
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Intermediate Trail Riding
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Intermediate trail rides last for more than one day. Learn how to prepare riders, horses, equipment and more to safely enjoy scenic nature trails.
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Community Gardening Toolkit, Page 2
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Community gardening advocates today claim that community gardens have permanent, long-term functions that provide a number of benefits to individuals, families and communities.