As we gear up for gardening in full force, keep these safety tips in mind while you're out in the garden. Whether that garden is in your back yard, or on a community plot - make sure you are safe while outside. Training yourself now makes it much easier in the hot, summer weather.
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Happy International Compost Awareness Week!
The UConn Home & Garden Center office is closed today due to a power/communications outage on campus. We are available remotely and will be responding to voice messages and emails as normal, until 4PM today. Please contact us at ladybug@uconn.edu, 877-486-6274, or here on facebook for gardening... help!
Thank you,
The UConn HGEC Team
Our May Newsletter is out just in time for those weekend gardening projects! Check out the link in bio!
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Our May Newsletter is out!
Every month, we share a collection of horticultural advice and news relevant to the Connecticut Gardener in an E-Newsletter that goes straight to your inbox!
For May, we discuss Container Gardening, Insect Habitats, Gardening with Climate Change in Mind ...& More! Click the link to check it out!
A note to current subscribers: We are aware of a technical bug where some Gmail and Yahoo accounts have not received our recent communications. We are working with our communications team and IT to resolve this and hope to have this resolved by the end of next week. Make sure to check out the archive on our website for any missed editions!
View as a PDF "Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration." -Louise Erickson Container Gardening Gardening ...
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Houseplants will enjoy "field trips" outside during these warmer days! Here's a few tips to help your plants transition from indoors to patio life in New England!
* Don't leave your plants out if temperatures dip below 55 degrees.
* Early in their transition ...from indoor to outdoor, put them in a place where they will get a break from direct sunlight.
* Move them into an area with a little more sunlight every couple of days until they can tolerate full exposure.
*Make sure they are appropriately watered and fertilized to withstand new conditions.
* Keep them sheltered from strong gusts of wind
Rest assured, the dog in the background is a trained gardening enthusiast and knows to watch out for thorns on this lemon tree!
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Eastern tent caterpillars have made their appearance, and their silken tents can be seen in the forks of branches.
Their preferred hosts are native cherries, especially black cherry and Malus spp.- apple and crabapple.
Damage can be severe on small trees, and tents can be ...smeared or brushed off when the caterpillars are inside. Birds, looking to eat caterpillars may pull tents apart.
Foliar sprays are available in worst case scenarios - please contact us or ask your local arborist for more information. Trees can normally recover from defoliation, as these caterpillars are done feeding by early summer and trees will produce new leaves.
Eastern Tent Caterpillars Malacosoma americanum PDF VersionThe eastern tent caterpillar, Malacosoma americanum, is a pest native to North America ...
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Frequent heavy rain events since summer 2023 have caused standing water in some areas that has remained since last July. Plant roots need air, so it is a concern that some plants, like trees, may succumb if water is not drained below the root zone after 4 months of standing water.
Trees ...have toppled over along Rte. 195 in Storrs after constant flooded conditions since summer 2023. Roots may have little hold in saturated soils and toppling trees can knock over their neighbors as they fall.
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