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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
All Current Publications
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
All Current Publications
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 …
Implementing Landscape Design Principles To Improve Green Spaces And Promote Ecotherapy On A College Campus, Jessica Hutchinson
Implementing Landscape Design Principles To Improve Green Spaces And Promote Ecotherapy On A College Campus, Jessica Hutchinson
Honors College
As students in Maine are subject to harsh winters and a disconnectedness due to the pandemic, the creation of an ecotherapy focused garden may benefit the community at the University of Maine. Mental health is a rising concern within the United States, where anxiety has been the most frequent in students at 62.7% from a survey conducted by the Center for Collegiate Mental Health (Son et al., 2020). Ecotherapy is the practice of holistic psychology where healing is derived from interactions with the surrounding ecosystem (Summers and Vivian, 2018). Through literature review and gardening, this creative project provides a green …
Bowling Green Rose Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Rose Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 712. Minutes, correspondence, show programs, and miscellaneous records of the Bowling Green Rose Society. The bulk of the material is from the 1980s and 1990s.
Preparing And Improving Garden Soil, Katie Wagner, Melanie Stock, Larry A. Sagers
Preparing And Improving Garden Soil, Katie Wagner, Melanie Stock, Larry A. Sagers
All Current Publications
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!
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Victoria Sackville-West Materials., Victoria Sackville-West, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Victoria Sackville-West Materials., Victoria Sackville-West, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aids
The collection contains 27 letters and 4 greeting cards of personal correspondence written between 1947-1961, from V. Sackville-West at her home at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, U.K., to Grace Mountcastle Martin in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Many of the letters convey the author's thanks for shipments of sugar and soap during times of rationing in the U.K.
V. [Victoria or "Vita"] Sackville-West, English poet, novelist, socialite and suffragette, was born in 1892 at her family's estate at Knole in Kent. Privately educated, she began writing poetry at age 11, and had produced 8 novels and 5 plays by the time of her …
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Celia Thaxter Materials, Celia Thaxter, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Celia Thaxter Materials, Celia Thaxter, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aids
Celia Laighton Thaxter, 1835-1894, was an American poet and prose writer. Born Celia Laighton in Portsmouth, N.H., she spent her childhood on White Island Lighthouse, part of Isles of Shoals, and Appledore Island. At 16 she married Levi Thaxter and had three sons, Karl, John, and Roland. The family spent winters on the mainland in Massachusetts, where Celia felt imprisoned by domestic duties in a city house. Her first poem, "Land-locked," was published in 1860 and was an immediate success. Soon she became widely published, with poems appearing in Harper's, Scribner's, and the Atlantic. With the means to spend more …
Perennial Geraniums, Sarah Browning
Perennial Geraniums, Sarah Browning
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
Hardy geraniums are a great ground cover plant for sunny or partially shaded areas, but they are often confused with the beautiful annual geraniums found at the garden center in spring. Technically, annual geraniums are in the genus Pelargonium, while the hardy geraniums are true geraniums. However, hardy geraniums are great perennial plants that deserve to be used more in Nebraska gardens.
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
All Current Publications
No abstract provided.
Pace Family Papers (Mss 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pace Family Papers (Mss 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 458. Pace family documents (chiefly related to land transactions) including deeds, land grants, mortgages; as well as Bible records for the Pace and related families (click on "Additional Files" below for scans), and probate records. A significant portion of the collection documents the garden club activities of Lillian (Tynes) Pace and her efforts to have the Viceroy butterfly designated as the Kentucky state butterfly.
Pb1069 Hobby Greenhouses In Tennessee, Mary Lewnes Albrecht
Pb1069 Hobby Greenhouses In Tennessee, Mary Lewnes Albrecht
Home Garden, Lawn, and Landscape
No abstract provided.
Improving School Lunches And Environment Through On-Site Gardens, Benjamin J. Spoden
Improving School Lunches And Environment Through On-Site Gardens, Benjamin J. Spoden
A with Honors Projects
This project is a proposal to illustrate the pros and cons of building a program for school lunches and horticulture education. Building community, knowledge, and health by an on-site gardening program.
Topsoil Quality Guidelines For Landscaping, Rich Koenig, Von Isaman
Topsoil Quality Guidelines For Landscaping, Rich Koenig, Von Isaman
Gardening
No abstract provided.
Cover Crops For Utah Gardens, Michael Johnson, Maggie Wolf, Rich Keonig
Cover Crops For Utah Gardens, Michael Johnson, Maggie Wolf, Rich Keonig
All Current Publications
No abstract provided.
Fall Planting, Larry A. Sagers
Strawberries In The Garden, Brent Black, Michael Pace, Jerry Goodspeed
Strawberries In The Garden, Brent Black, Michael Pace, Jerry Goodspeed
Gardening
No abstract provided.
Understanding Your Soil Test Report, Grant E. Cardon, Jan Kotuby-Amacher, Pam Hole, Rich Koenig
Understanding Your Soil Test Report, Grant E. Cardon, Jan Kotuby-Amacher, Pam Hole, Rich Koenig
Gardening
No abstract provided.
Beneficial Insects: Mantids, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson
Beneficial Insects: Mantids, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson
All Current Publications
No abstract provided.
Frozen Beetle Treats Are Environmentally Friendly, W. John Hayden
Frozen Beetle Treats Are Environmentally Friendly, W. John Hayden
Biology Faculty Publications
At my rural household, the most vexatious insect pest has got to be the ubiquitous Japanese beetle. Native to Japan, these pests have infested most of eastern North America, with isolated infestations appearing in some western states. One reason that Japanese beetles are so bad is that they deliver a double-whammy: the larvae (grubs) consume roots and are particularly destructive of turf and pasture grasses while the adults consume leaves and flowers of a wide variety of plants, leaving behind skeletonized versions of the plant parts consumed.
Annuals For Utah Gardens, Teresa Cerny, Debbie Amundsen, Loralie Cox
Annuals For Utah Gardens, Teresa Cerny, Debbie Amundsen, Loralie Cox
Gardening
No abstract provided.
Herb Container Gardens, Maggie Wolf, Teresa Cerny
Garden Water Use In Utah, Robert W. Hill
Garden Water Use In Utah, Robert W. Hill
All Current Publications
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
Gardening Myth Information, Dennis Hinkamp
All Archived Publications
No abstract provided.
Raised Bed Gardening In Red Rock Country, Dennis Hinkamp
Raised Bed Gardening In Red Rock Country, Dennis Hinkamp
All Archived Publications
No abstract provided.
Plant Some New Vegetables This Year, Dennis Hinkamp
Plant Some New Vegetables This Year, Dennis Hinkamp
All Current Publications
No abstract provided.
Currents, A 'Berry' Good Addition To Your Garden, Dennis Hinkamp
Currents, A 'Berry' Good Addition To Your Garden, Dennis Hinkamp
All Current Publications
No abstract provided.
Fall Gardening Requires Faith, Dennis Hinkamp
Fall Gardening Requires Faith, Dennis Hinkamp
All Archived Publications
No abstract provided.
Landscaping: Exterior Design Revamp Time, Dennis Hinkamp
Landscaping: Exterior Design Revamp Time, Dennis Hinkamp
All Current Publications
No abstract provided.
Join Hands With Spiders In Garden Warfare, Dennis Hinkamp
Join Hands With Spiders In Garden Warfare, Dennis Hinkamp
All Current Publications
No abstract provided.
Masters Of Gardening Keep Utah Growing, Dennis Hinkamp
Masters Of Gardening Keep Utah Growing, Dennis Hinkamp
All Current Publications
No abstract provided.