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Neatening up the lawn in autumn or fall using a lawnmower to cut and bag the grass and dead leaves under trees alongside the road (Photo: iStock - Ozgur Coskun)
Home and Family, Horticulture, Horticulture, Outdoors

Checklist for September yard and garden tasks

Fall is in the air. Keep pushing forward and consider these lawn and garden tips from the USU Extension Gardeners Almanac. Read More

Grasshopper (Photo by Alice Whyte, Vilas, North Carolina.)
Horticulture, Horticulture, Outdoors

In the garden: Am I growing plants, or feeding grasshoppers?

Fall garden
Home and Family, Horticulture, Horticulture, Outdoors

Gardening tips for late summer splendor



Female horse flies can be stubborn, aggressive blood feeders. Reports of the pest have not been high so far, but they are expected to increase in areas that received heavy rains over recent weeks. (Bart Drees/Texas A&M AgriLife)

Livestock, humans at risk of painful bites as horse fly populations increase

PHOTO: Learn what to look for and how to maintain backyard gardens, porch plants, and landscapes during the summer months. (Photo by Ken Johnson, Illinois Extension) 

Tips for getting landscape plants through summer

Digging in garden beds. Weeding weeds in the garden. (Photo: iStock - Anna Solovei)

June Gardening Tips and Checklist

  • By JayDee Gunnell | Utah State University Extension
The soybean midge gall can be devastating to fields, says K-State entomologist Anthony Zukoff. (Photo: Courtesy of K-State Research and Extension news service)

Soybean gall midge shows up in two Kansas counties

  • By Jacob Klaudt │ K-State Research and Extension news service

Stripe rust a concern in Oklahoma wheat

OSU forage entomologist discusses alfalfa weevils

National Gardening Month is a great time for novices to try their hand at gardening or for experts to branch out. (Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife)

National Gardening Month: Time to clean your garden – or start one

A forage alfalfa field. (Courtesy photo.)

A High Plains pest problem comes to light

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