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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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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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Bermudagrass for Athletic Fields
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Bermudagrass offers a durable turf solution for athletic fields facing challenges with cool-season grasses due to limited irrigation and heavy use.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Ornamental Vines
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Enhance your landscape with ornamental vines that provide privacy, soften structures, and add seasonal interest. Learn selection, support, and care tips.
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Pruning and Care of Shade Trees
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Yearly pruning during the first few years can help a tree become established and strong. Learn when and how to prune and problems you might encounter.
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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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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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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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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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Tips for Pony Pleasure Drivers
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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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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 4
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Community gardens have been used in American cities since the 1890s. They were important during the World Wars and the Great Depression. In the 1970s, they experienced a rebirth in response to urban abandonment, rising inflation, environmental concerns and a desire to build neighborly connections.
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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.
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Grasses in Shade: Establishing and Maintaining Lawns in Low Light
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Learn how to establish and maintain healthy lawns in shaded areas, including grass selection, tree pruning, and proper lawn care techniques.
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Roses: Selecting and Planting
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Roses are well adapted to many different environmental conditions. They are useful as landscape plants and prized as cut flowers.
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Home Propagation of Houseplants
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Plant pieces cut from a parent plant and rooted to form new plants are called “cuttings.” Use of cuttings is a simple, inexpensive way to multiply houseplants and garden plants.
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Caring for Flooded Lawns
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Once the flood waters have receded and the homes are recovered, it will be time to clean up the yard.
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Watering and Fertilizing Tomatoes in a High Tunnel
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Proper watering and fertilization are essential for tomatoes in a high tunnel. High tunnels keep out natural rainfall, so timely irrigation is necessary.
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Growing Sweet Peppers in Missouri
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From transplanting and field establishment to harvesting and marketing, learn how to grow sweet peppers in Missouri.
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Growing Sweet Corn in Missouri
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Sweet corn is a popular summer vegetable crop in Missouri that grows well in a wide range of soils.
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The State of Neighboring In Missouri (2022-2024)
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This guide explores the evolving dynamics of neighboring within Missouri communities.