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Creating Sustainable School And Home Gardens: Create A Garden Anywhere, Rita Hagevik, Kathy Cabe Trundle Jun 2024

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 Jun 2024

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 May 2024

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 May 2022

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 Jul 2020

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!


Constructing A Low-Cost High Tunnel For Tall Crops (14.5' Wide By 10' Tall), Tiffany Maughan, Daniel Rowley, Brent Black, Dan Drost Jun 2014

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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Topsoil Quality Guidelines For Landscaping, Rich Koenig, Von Isaman Dec 2010

Topsoil Quality Guidelines For Landscaping, Rich Koenig, Von Isaman

Gardening

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Cover Crops For Utah Gardens, Michael Johnson, Maggie Wolf, Rich Keonig Jun 2010

Cover Crops For Utah Gardens, Michael Johnson, Maggie Wolf, Rich Keonig

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Fall Planting, Larry A. Sagers Sep 2009

Fall Planting, Larry A. Sagers

Archived Gardening Publications

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Strawberries In The Garden, Brent Black, Michael Pace, Jerry Goodspeed Oct 2008

Strawberries In The Garden, Brent Black, Michael Pace, Jerry Goodspeed

Gardening

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Understanding Your Soil Test Report, Grant E. Cardon, Jan Kotuby-Amacher, Pam Hole, Rich Koenig May 2008

Understanding Your Soil Test Report, Grant E. Cardon, Jan Kotuby-Amacher, Pam Hole, Rich Koenig

Gardening

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Beneficial Insects: Mantids, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson Nov 2007

Beneficial Insects: Mantids, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson

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Annuals For Utah Gardens, Teresa Cerny, Debbie Amundsen, Loralie Cox Sep 2003

Annuals For Utah Gardens, Teresa Cerny, Debbie Amundsen, Loralie Cox

Gardening

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Herb Container Gardens, Maggie Wolf, Teresa Cerny Aug 2002

Herb Container Gardens, Maggie Wolf, Teresa Cerny

Gardening

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Garden Water Use In Utah, Robert W. Hill Jun 2002

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.


Gardening Myth Information, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2002

Gardening Myth Information, Dennis Hinkamp

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Raised Bed Gardening In Red Rock Country, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2002

Raised Bed Gardening In Red Rock Country, Dennis Hinkamp

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Plant Some New Vegetables This Year, Dennis Hinkamp Apr 2001

Plant Some New Vegetables This Year, Dennis Hinkamp

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Fall Gardening Requires Faith, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Fall Gardening Requires Faith, Dennis Hinkamp

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Apricot - The Versatile Fruit, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Apricot - The Versatile Fruit, Dennis Hinkamp

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Planning Is The Key To Saving Water In Garden, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Planning Is The Key To Saving Water In Garden, Dennis Hinkamp

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Water, Water Everywhere, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Water, Water Everywhere, Dennis Hinkamp

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Join Hands With Spiders In Garden Warfare, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Join Hands With Spiders In Garden Warfare, Dennis Hinkamp

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Masters Of Gardening Keep Utah Growing, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Masters Of Gardening Keep Utah Growing, Dennis Hinkamp

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Annuals - Help Them Survive Transplanting, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Annuals - Help Them Survive Transplanting, Dennis Hinkamp

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Give Trees A Chance, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Give Trees A Chance, Dennis Hinkamp

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Insecticides: Ask Questions First, Shoot Later, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Insecticides: Ask Questions First, Shoot Later, Dennis Hinkamp

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Landscaping: Exterior Design Revamp Time, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Landscaping: Exterior Design Revamp Time, Dennis Hinkamp

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Taming The Blackberry, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Taming The Blackberry, Dennis Hinkamp

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Currents, A 'Berry' Good Addition To Your Garden, Dennis Hinkamp Jan 2001

Currents, A 'Berry' Good Addition To Your Garden, Dennis Hinkamp

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No abstract provided.