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Providing Pest Management Education For Home Gardeners In Utah, Nick Volesky, Marion Murray
Providing Pest Management Education For Home Gardeners In Utah, Nick Volesky, Marion Murray
Outcomes and Impact Quarterly
In January 2024, Utah State University (USU) Extension's Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program launched a three-part class series targeting Utah's home gardeners. The goal was to enhance their abilities in identifying and managing insect and plant diseases. With over 200 participants, the series notably increased the knowledge of attendees. This initiative aligns with the USU Extension IPM program's mission to promote sustainable pest management practices across Utah, evidencing its commitment to environmental stewardship and community education.
Anemone Cut Flower Production In Utah, Shannon Rauter, Melanie Stock
Anemone Cut Flower Production In Utah, Shannon Rauter, Melanie Stock
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Anemone (Anemone coronaria) is grown as a cool-season annual for cut flower production in Utah. Tubers can be planted as early as November in a high tunnel for blooms beginning in March. For field production, plant in fall with insulation or as early as possible in spring (i.e., the soil is workable, approximately early March) for blooms beginning in May. Flower production ceases when temperatures reach approximately 80°F, usually by early July in northern Utah. In North Logan, UT, high tunnels produced an average of 2 to 7 marketable stems per plant, compared to 1 to 4 stems …
Demonstration Farm Provides Educational Opportunity For Ipm, Nick Volesky, Mair Murray
Demonstration Farm Provides Educational Opportunity For Ipm, Nick Volesky, Mair Murray
Outcomes and Impact Quarterly
The mission of USU Extension’s Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program is to increase the use of sustainable pest management practices within urban and rural landscapes to provide economic, human, and environmental health in Utah. In the spring of 2022, the IPM program established a vegetable farm to test and demonstrate IPM practices. The farm served as an experiential learning classroom for almost 50 farmers and home gardeners.
Helping Utah Landowners Reduce Pesticide Use Through A Statewide Ipm Program, Nick Volesky, Mair Murray
Helping Utah Landowners Reduce Pesticide Use Through A Statewide Ipm Program, Nick Volesky, Mair Murray
Outcomes and Impact Quarterly
The Utah Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program provides outreach and education to Utahns to reduce pesticide use and ultimately protect human and environmental health. In 2022, the IPM program responded to stakeholders’ needs by partnering with county Extension offices to deliver eight (8) in-person workshops across the state. The workshops connected Extension specialists and county faculty with managers of home landscapes and farms. The objective of the workshops was to provide participants with IPM skills to identify, monitor, and manage pest problems in preparation for the upcoming growing season.
High Tunnel Construction Cost Calculation Workbook, Shannon Rauter, Melanie Stock, Brent Black, Dan Drost
High Tunnel Construction Cost Calculation Workbook, Shannon Rauter, Melanie Stock, Brent Black, Dan Drost
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The cost of building a high tunnel fluctuates over time with supply prices. This Excel workbook accompanies the USU Extension fact sheet, "Constructing a Low-cost High Tunnel" by Black, Drost, Rowley, and Heflebower (2011) and allows users to input local supply costs. The workbook then calculates the cost to build a USU low-cost high tunnel with several design options according to high tunnel length and door structure. It also provides an example calculation based on April 2022 pricing for reference.
Horticultural Availability And Homeowner Preferences Drive Plant Diversity And Composition In Urban Yards, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Josep Padullés Cubino, William D. Pearse, Sarah E. Hobbie, A. J. Lange, Sonja Knapp, Kristen C. Nelson
Horticultural Availability And Homeowner Preferences Drive Plant Diversity And Composition In Urban Yards, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Josep Padullés Cubino, William D. Pearse, Sarah E. Hobbie, A. J. Lange, Sonja Knapp, Kristen C. Nelson
Ecology Center Publications
Understanding the factors that influence biodiversity in urban areas is important for informing management efforts aimed at enhancing the ecosystem services in urban settings and curbing the spread of invasive introduced species. We determined the ecological and socioeconomic factors that influence patterns of plant richness, phylogenetic diversity, and composition in 133 private household yards in the Minneapolis‐Saint Paul Metropolitan area, Minnesota, USA. We compared the composition of spontaneously occurring plant species and those planted by homeowners with composition in natural areas (at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve) and in the horticulture pool of species available from commercial growers. Yard …
Sagers Solar Greenhouse, Larry A. Sagers
Sagers Solar Greenhouse, Larry A. Sagers
Archived Gardening Publications
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Arbor Text, Larry A. Sagers
Annual Flowers For Utah Gardens, Larry A. Sagers
Annual Flowers For Utah Gardens, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Evaluation Of Competition Between Turfgrass And Trees In The Landscape, Christopher A. Hendrickson
Evaluation Of Competition Between Turfgrass And Trees In The Landscape, Christopher A. Hendrickson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Population growth in regions of the Intermountain West has resulted in rapid growth of residential neighborhoods. In Utah, the landscapes associated with these expanding neighborhoods consume vast quantities of treated water. This is a concern in all states of the Intermountain West, as water becomes increasingly scarce. Traditionally used turfgrasses, trees and other plants in Intermountain West landscapes require significant amounts of supplemental water considering the intense sunlight, dry winds and sparse rainfall typical of the region. Characterizing the interactions between turfgrass and tree species in these landscapes can aid in the identification of candidate species that consume less nutritional …
Advanced Master Gardeners Flower Resources, Larry A. Sagers
Advanced Master Gardeners Flower Resources, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Advanced Master Gardeners 2008, Larry A. Sagers
Advanced Master Gardeners 2008, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Propagation Of Woody Plants, Larry A. Sagers
Propagation Of Woody Plants, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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The Conservatory Gardens, Larry A. Sagers
The Conservatory Gardens, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Developing New Varieties, Larry A. Sagers
Developing New Varieties, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Flower Pests, Larry A. Sagers
Designing Perennial Gardens, Larry A. Sagers
Designing Perennial Gardens, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Flower Pests, Larry A. Sagers
Creating A Rock Garden, Gwendolyn Nelson
Creating A Rock Garden, Gwendolyn Nelson
All Archived Publications
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Controlling Lawn Weeds In Utah, Larry A. Sagers
Controlling Lawn Weeds In Utah, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Reducing Landscape Maintenance, Larry A. Sagers
Reducing Landscape Maintenance, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Raised Bed Gardening Top 10 Questions, Jaydee Gunnell
Raised Bed Gardening Top 10 Questions, Jaydee Gunnell
All Archived Publications
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Color For All Seasons, Jeanette Bradfield, Torie Hancock
Color For All Seasons, Jeanette Bradfield, Torie Hancock
All Archived Publications
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Fertilizing Woody Plants In Utah, Larry A. Sagers
Fertilizing Woody Plants In Utah, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Tree Compartmentalization: Codit Model, Larry A. Sagers
Tree Compartmentalization: Codit Model, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Fertilizing The Vegetable Garden, Larry A. Sagers
Fertilizing The Vegetable Garden, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Cloning… Not Just Scince Fiction, Larry A. Sagers
Cloning… Not Just Scince Fiction, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Hedge, Larry A. Sagers
Flower Insects And Related Pests, Larry A. Sagers
Flower Insects And Related Pests, Larry A. Sagers
All Archived Publications
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Growing Espaliers, Larry A. Sagers