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2015

Horticulture

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Plums In The Home Garden, Michael Caron, Taun Beddes, Brent Black Nov 2015

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.

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Apricots In The Home Garden, Michael Caron, Taun Beddes, Brent Black Nov 2015

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.

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Goji In The Garden, Tiffany Maughan, Brent Black Oct 2015

Goji In The Garden, Tiffany Maughan, Brent Black

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This fact sheet describes goji, a small orange to red fruit. It lists recommended cultivars, how to grow goji, including site selection, soil, plant material, spacing, irrigation, fertilizer and pruning. Problems such as weeds, insects and diseases are described, as well as harvesting, productivity and use of goji.

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Haskap (Blue Honeysuckle) In The Garden, Elisa Lauritzen, Tiffany Maughan, Brent Black Aug 2015

Haskap (Blue Honeysuckle) In The Garden, Elisa Lauritzen, Tiffany Maughan, Brent Black

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This fact sheet is about Haskap, a relatively new crop in the United States and subsequently, the home garden. It describes the plants, recommended varieties, how to grow them, problems, harvest, use, and storage.

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Wisteria In The Garden, Michael Caron, Taun Beddes, Gabriela Judd Jul 2015

Wisteria In The Garden, Michael Caron, Taun Beddes, Gabriela Judd

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Wisteria is a vigorous, cold-hardy, long-lived, true climbing/twining vine best known for large panicles of beautiful spring blooming flowers. This fact sheet describes varieties, how to grow, and pruning and training.

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Ornamental Grasses In The Landscape, A Guide For The Intermountain West, Jaydee Gunnell, Jerry L. Goodspeed, Richard M. Anderson Jun 2015

Ornamental Grasses In The Landscape, A Guide For The Intermountain West, Jaydee Gunnell, Jerry L. Goodspeed, Richard M. Anderson

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This publication illustrates basic identifying structures and features of grasses in general, as well as key taxonomic characteristics that horticulturists use in classifying the different species. It also covers how to use ornamental grasses in landscape settings and highlights some of the commonly grown ornamental species that are adapted to the Intermountain West.

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Vegetable Irrigation: Squash And Pumpkin, Tiffany Maughan, Dan Drost, L. Niel Allen Jun 2015

Vegetable Irrigation: Squash And Pumpkin, Tiffany Maughan, Dan Drost, L. Niel Allen

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This fact sheet discusses the basic principles of irrigation systems, whether furrow, sprinkler or drip, that will help ensure proper irrigation of squash and pumpkin.

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Gardening In Clay Soils, Katie Wagner, Michael R. Kuhns, Grant Cardon Jun 2015

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.

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Sagers Solar Greenhouse, Larry A. Sagers May 2015

Sagers Solar Greenhouse, Larry A. Sagers

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Vegetable Irrigation: Onion, Tiffany Maughan, Dan Drost, L. Niel Allen May 2015

Vegetable Irrigation: Onion, Tiffany Maughan, Dan Drost, L. Niel Allen

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This fact sheet discusses the basic principles for properly irrigating onions.

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Vegetable Irrigation: Sweet Pepper And Tomato, Tiffany Maughan, Dan Drost, L. Niel Allen May 2015

Vegetable Irrigation: Sweet Pepper And Tomato, Tiffany Maughan, Dan Drost, L. Niel Allen

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This fact sheet discusses basic principles that will help ensure proper irrigation of sweet pepper and tomato.

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Raspberry Management For Utah, Tiffany Maughan, Brent Black Apr 2015

Raspberry Management For Utah, Tiffany Maughan, Brent Black

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This fact sheet provides a general guide to raspberry production that can be adapted for both home use and for small-scale commercial production.

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Water-Wise Landscaping: Ideas For Landscape Water Conservation Without Changing Your Landscape Design, Kyle Frandsen, Larry Rupp Mar 2015

Water-Wise Landscaping: Ideas For Landscape Water Conservation Without Changing Your Landscape Design, Kyle Frandsen, Larry Rupp

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This fact sheet describes many ways to conserve water without changing your existing landscape design.

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Vegetable Transplant Production, Dan Drost Mar 2015

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.

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Vegetable Irrigation: Melon, Tiffany Maughan, Dan Drost, Niel Allen, Brent Black Feb 2015

Vegetable Irrigation: Melon, Tiffany Maughan, Dan Drost, Niel Allen, Brent Black

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This fact sheet discusses basic principles that will help ensure proper irrigation of melon, regardless of the irrigation system used.

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Cost Free Landscape Water Conservation Ideas, Kyle Frandsen, Larry Rupp Feb 2015

Cost Free Landscape Water Conservation Ideas, Kyle Frandsen, Larry Rupp

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This fact sheet gives tips on simple and free things that can be done to help conserve water in the landscape, without changing the existing landscape.

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A Comparison Of 16 Summer-Bearing Raspberry Cultivars For Northern Utah, Britney Hunter, Rick Heflebower, Shawn Olsen, Brent Black, Diane Alston, Thor Lindstrom Jan 2015

A Comparison Of 16 Summer-Bearing Raspberry Cultivars For Northern Utah, Britney Hunter, Rick Heflebower, Shawn Olsen, Brent Black, Diane Alston, Thor Lindstrom

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This fact sheet compares summer-bearing raspberry cultivars for northern Utah, including their winter hardiness, yield, fruit quality and resistance to common insects and diseases.

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