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Creating Sustainable School And Home Gardens: Create A Garden Anywhere, Rita Hagevik, Kathy Cabe Trundle
Creating Sustainable School And Home Gardens: Create A Garden Anywhere, Rita Hagevik, Kathy Cabe Trundle
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This fact sheet is part of a series about creating sustainable school and home gardens. It provides information and resources on creating gardens anywhere, such as in containers, towers, raised beds, and forests. It also includes ideas and resources for encouraging beneficial insects and providing food and habitat for pollinators.
Creating Sustainable School And Home Gardens: Rain Barrels, Daniel Findlay, Rita Hagevik, Kathy Cabe Trundle
Creating Sustainable School And Home Gardens: Rain Barrels, Daniel Findlay, Rita Hagevik, Kathy Cabe Trundle
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This fact sheet is part of a series about creating sustainable school and home gardens. It provides information and resources on establishing rain barrels. When attached to a downspout, a barrel collects the rain that falls on the roof, allowing for local water use and preventing flooding or runoff pollution. The water can be used to nurture plants and animals.
Creating Sustainable School And Home Gardens: Welcoming Pollinators, Kaitlin Cambell, Rita Hagevik, Kathy Cabe Trundle
Creating Sustainable School And Home Gardens: Welcoming Pollinators, Kaitlin Cambell, Rita Hagevik, Kathy Cabe Trundle
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This fact sheet is part of a series about creating sustainable school and home gardens. It focuses on welcoming pollinators to the garden by providing a safe and effective habitat, and lists recommended plantings and resources.
Extending The Garden Season, Taun Beddes, Michael Caron, Sheriden M. Hansen, Jaydee Gunnell
Extending The Garden Season, Taun Beddes, Michael Caron, Sheriden M. Hansen, Jaydee Gunnell
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Many homeowners have the dream of growing fresh vegetables year-round. Unfortunately, in colder climates, this is only possible using a complete greenhouse with supplemental heating/cooling and lights. Greenhouses can be excessively expensive to maintain and heat, making them impractical for most homeowners. This is not only due to cold winter temperatures but shorter day lengths and lower available light that must be offset artificially. There are practical, less expensive ways to obtain self-grown produce earlier and later in the growing season, though, by using season-extending techniques. These include using equipment such as cold frames, high tunnels, low tunnels, floating row …
Preparing And Improving Garden Soil, Katie Wagner, Melanie Stock, Larry A. Sagers
Preparing And Improving Garden Soil, Katie Wagner, Melanie Stock, Larry A. Sagers
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A great garden starts with healthy soil. In Utah, there are unique considerations for creating and maintaining healthy soils. Native Utah soils are relatively low in organic matter. One of Utah’s most troublesome, pH-related deficiencies is iron chlorosis, a deficiency of plant-available iron. Soil salinity easily increases in Utah. This fact sheet addresses these challenges to help gardeners transform garden soils from brutal to beautiful!
Horehound In The Garden, Dan Drost, Becky Barton
Horehound In The Garden, Dan Drost, Becky Barton
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This publication describes horehound and how to plant it in the garden, including varieties, how to grow, problems, harvesting and storage, productivity, and uses and nutrition.
Lemon Balm In The Garden, Dan Drost, Hyrum Gillespie
Lemon Balm In The Garden, Dan Drost, Hyrum Gillespie
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This publication describes lemon balm, its varieties, how to grow, problems, harvesting and curing, productivity and uses and nutrition.
Watercress In The Garden, Dan Drost, Trudy Kendrick
Watercress In The Garden, Dan Drost, Trudy Kendrick
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This publication describes watercress in the garden, recommended varieties, how to grow, problems, harvest and storage, and uses.
Vegetable Irrigation: Leafy Greens, Dan Drost, Tiffany Maughan
Vegetable Irrigation: Leafy Greens, Dan Drost, Tiffany Maughan
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Different irrigation methods are commonly used to irrigate leafy greens, each with different management considerations. Furrow irrigation is quite common but many growers are converting to use drip irrigation to save water, improve plant growth, and optimize productivity. Regardless of the irrigation system used, there are some basic principles to understand that will help ensure proper irrigation. This fact sheet discusses these basic principles.
Gardening Basics, Ronald Patterson, Dennis Worwood, Celina Wille
Gardening Basics, Ronald Patterson, Dennis Worwood, Celina Wille
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This fact sheet provides basics for gardening, including location, sunlight, spacing, growing season, soil, water, and planting seeds versus plants.
Grape Irrigation, Tiffany Maughan, Brent Black, L. Niel Allen, Dan Drost, Grant Cardon
Grape Irrigation, Tiffany Maughan, Brent Black, L. Niel Allen, Dan Drost, Grant Cardon
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This fact sheet describes how to properly manage irrigation of grapes for the long-term health and productivity of your planting.
Almonds In The Home Garden, Teryl R. Roper, Rick Heflebower
Almonds In The Home Garden, Teryl R. Roper, Rick Heflebower
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This fact sheet describes growing almonds in Utah. It includes how to select plantings, site preparation, planting, pruning, irrigation, pest management, and some reasons why almond trees fail to bear.
Suggested Vegetable Planting Dates For The Wasatch Front, Shawn Olsen
Suggested Vegetable Planting Dates For The Wasatch Front, Shawn Olsen
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This fact sheet provides suggested vegetable planting dates for an average year along the Wasatch Front.
Apricots In The Home Garden, Michael Caron, Taun Beddes, Brent Black
Apricots In The Home Garden, Michael Caron, Taun Beddes, Brent Black
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This fact sheet provides information about apricots, including how to grow, harvest, store and use them.
Plums In The Home Garden, Michael Caron, Taun Beddes, Brent Black
Plums In The Home Garden, Michael Caron, Taun Beddes, Brent Black
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This fact sheet describes three types of plums commonly grown in Utah: European, Japanese, and American species. their care and selection, and how to harvest, store, and use them.
Gardening In Sandy Soils, Katie Wagner, Michael R. Kuhns, Grant Cardon
Gardening In Sandy Soils, Katie Wagner, Michael R. Kuhns, Grant Cardon
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This fact sheet covers the basics of clay, silt and sand soils with an emphasis on gardening in soils with a high sand content. It includes information on the composition of sandy soils, gardening tips for managing sandy soils, and the types of plants that grow best in sandy soils.
Gardening In Clay Soils, Katie Wagner, Michael R. Kuhns, Grant Cardon
Gardening In Clay Soils, Katie Wagner, Michael R. Kuhns, Grant Cardon
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This fact sheet covers the basics of clay, silt and sand soils with an emphasis on gardening in soils with a high clay content. It includes information on the composition of clay soils, gardening tips for managing clay soils, and the types of plants that grow best in clay soils.
Gardening And Landscaping Practices For Nesting Native Bees, James H. Cane
Gardening And Landscaping Practices For Nesting Native Bees, James H. Cane
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This fact sheet describes simple landscaping and gardening practices that can provide essential nesting needs of native bees, including ground nesting, twig and stem nesting, and wood nesting.
Vegetable Transplant Production, Dan Drost
Vegetable Transplant Production, Dan Drost
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This fact sheet discusses what is needed to grow quality (compact, well rooted, healthy) transplants. It introduces things to consider when producing vegetable transplants. Transplants are commonly grown in greenhouses. Success depends on knowing the right conditions needed for the crop of interest so the plants are the correct size, are healthy, and capable of withstanding the transition from the greenhouse to the field. Briefly covered are: transplanting tray selection, transplant age and scheduling, growing mixes and soil media, seeds and seeding, what transplants need , diseases andother problems, and conditioning or hardening transplants.
Harvest And Storage Of Vegetables And Fruits, Shawn Olsen, Dan Drost, Teresa Hunsaker
Harvest And Storage Of Vegetables And Fruits, Shawn Olsen, Dan Drost, Teresa Hunsaker
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This 7-page fact sheet describes when and how to harvest fruits and vegetables and gives different options for storage for later use.
Constructing A Low-Cost High Tunnel For Tall Crops (14.5' Wide By 10' Tall), Tiffany Maughan, Daniel Rowley, Brent Black, Dan Drost
Constructing A Low-Cost High Tunnel For Tall Crops (14.5' Wide By 10' Tall), Tiffany Maughan, Daniel Rowley, Brent Black, Dan Drost
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Home Gardening: Quick Tips To Efficient Watering, Jordan Burningham, Roslynn Brain
Home Gardening: Quick Tips To Efficient Watering, Jordan Burningham, Roslynn Brain
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Pomegranate, Fruit Of The Desert, Rick Heflebower, Robert Morris
Pomegranate, Fruit Of The Desert, Rick Heflebower, Robert Morris
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This fact sheet describes pomegranates, their origin and adaptation, and how to cultivate them.
Gardening For Native Bees In Utah And Beyond, James H. Cane, Linda Kervin
Gardening For Native Bees In Utah And Beyond, James H. Cane, Linda Kervin
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Utah is home to more than 20 percent of the 4,000+ named species of wild bees that are native to North America. Except for bumblebees and some sweat bees, our native bees are solitary, not social, many with just one annual generation that coincides with bloom by their favorite floral hosts. In contrast, the familiar honeybee is highly social, has perennial colonies, and was brought to North America by settlers from Europe.
Backyard Composting In Utah, Kitt Farrell-Poe, Rich Koenig
Backyard Composting In Utah, Kitt Farrell-Poe, Rich Koenig
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This publication explains the benefits of composting and how to successfully start a compost in your own backyard.
Cover Crops For Utah Gardens, Michael Johnson, Maggie Wolf, Rich Keonig
Cover Crops For Utah Gardens, Michael Johnson, Maggie Wolf, Rich Keonig
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Beneficial Insects: Beetles, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson
Beneficial Insects: Beetles, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson
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Beneficial Insects: Mantids, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson
Beneficial Insects: Mantids, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson
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Garden Water Use In Utah, Robert W. Hill
Garden Water Use In Utah, Robert W. Hill
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The goal of garden irrigation is to maintain yield and quality by replacing water lost to the atmosphere from the soil by evaporation, and from leaf surfaces by transpiration. The combination of evaporation and transpiration is referred to as evapotranspiration (Et), or simply water use. Garden water use is presented in units of inches of water per day, week or month.