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Vegetable Gardening
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Vegetable gardening is a rewarding activity that can provide fresh, flavorful produce. It also offers the benefits of exercise, fresh air and landscape beautification. Learn to grow your own vegetables so you can eat fresh and save on groceries.
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Herbaceous Ornamentals
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Discover the beauty of herbaceous ornamentals—annuals and perennials that add color, texture, and fragrance to your garden with easy-growing versatility
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Your Child’s Health and BMI
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Body Mass Index (BMI), a ratio of an individual’s height and weight, is used as a screening tool to identify possible health risks such as diabetes, heart disease and asthma. Learn how to keep your child’s BMI within a healthy range.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 14
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Discover the best shade trees for your landscape, including lindens with fragrant summer flowers and improved varieties like 'Greenspire' and 'Redmond'.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 17
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Discover characteristics, growth habits, and ideal conditions for various shade trees like Red Maple, offering valuable insights for your landscape planning.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 20
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Siberian elm is a fast-growing, hardy shade tree that thrives in tough conditions but can become invasive and have weak wood. Suitable for large spaces.
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Corn Diseases
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Editor's note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available as a downloadable PDF.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 23
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Swamp white oak is a durable, fast-growing shade tree that thrives in wet soils. Known for its resistance to pests, it provides excellent shade and fall color.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 26
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Discover the tulip tree's features, including its height, growth habits, and ideal planting conditions for a beautiful and sustainable landscape addition.
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The Bagworm in Missouri
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 29
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Discover the unique beauty of yellowwood trees, featuring fragrant white flowers and a rounded form, ideal for diverse landscapes.
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Soil Testing for Lawns
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Periodic soil testing helps you correct nutrient deficiencies, avoid excess fertilizer applications and maintain a healthy lawn. Learn when routine soil testing makes sense and what it analyzes in this University of Missouri Extension guide.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees
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Learn how to select the perfect shade trees for your Midwest yard or landscape. Don't waste years on a bad landscape!
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees, Page 03
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Amur maple is a versatile, small deciduous tree with vibrant fall color. It adapts well to various soils, offering resistance to pests and urban conditions.
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Mulches
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Mulches provide many benefits to plants. Benefits vary with the material used, the type of soil, the kind of plant and the cultural practices used. Mulches also may be used to make landscapes more attractive and usable and to reduce the amount of maintenance work (Figures 1a to 1c).
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees, Page 06
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Bur oak is a hardy, slow-growing shade tree with broad leaves, deep roots, and drought tolerance, making it ideal for various landscape conditions.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees, Page 09
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Learn about the Golden-rain tree, its ornamental value, and how it thrives in a variety of landscapes, offering both beauty and environmental benefits.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 12
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Learn about the Horse Chestnut tree, its distinctive features, growth habits, and ideal planting conditions to enhance your landscape with shade and beauty.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 15
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Norway maple is a fast-growing shade tree with broad, dense leaves. It thrives in various soil types and is commonly used in urban areas for its durability.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 18
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Red Oak is a sturdy, fast-growing shade tree, known for its strength, fall color, and adaptability to a variety of soil conditions.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 21
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Silver maple is a fast-growing tree ideal for moist soils, providing quick shade but known for suffering storm damage and interfering with sewers or sidewalks.
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Soybean Diseases
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Editor's note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available as a downloadable PDF.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 24
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Discover the sweet gum tree's glossy star-shaped leaves, symmetrical beauty, and unique ball-shaped fruit. Note: susceptible to bleeding canker disease.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 27
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Discover the characteristics of the white ash tree, including its growth rate, fall color, and considerations for planting in Missouri landscapes.