Do you have a cut flower garden at home? What do you grow?
This arrangement features Cosmos, Beebalm, Ageratum, Snapdragons, Lisianthus and mint! All of these flowers are easy to grow, and give you a ton of color in the garden and in your homemade vases!
Picking your flowers at ...the right time of day can help with their vase life. Read more about harvesting here: https://ag.umass.edu/greenhouse-floriculture/fact-sheets/harvesting-handling-cut-flowers
The heat, the pests, the diseases, it seems relentless in the middle of summer. Our plants are stressed and so are we! We're here to tell you to "Keep growing!" Use these moments as learning opportunities to make your gardens better in seasons to come.
What has been your ...biggest frustration this season?
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Earlier this week, Pamm Cooper from the UConn Home & Garden Education Center spoke with NBC30 CT about the increase in beetle activity this month!
Take advantage of our beautiful weather this weekend to get out there and scout for your own garden!
Experts at UConn’s Home and Garden Education Center are warning gardeners about invasive beetles. “They’re not harmful to people,’ said...
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Our IPM Seminar is only 2 weeks away!
This event is free and geared towards the home gardener!
Registration is required for this event! Link is in our bio!
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What does a PB&J have to do with garden pests?
Learn about identifying pests in the height of the growing season in this week's blog!
Remember in the spring when we all gleefully loaded our trunks with flats of flowers, trays of vegetables, bags of fresh mulch and maybe even a new...
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Do you have hosta in your garden?
Save the date! The CT Invasive Plant Working Group's In-Person Symposium will be October 29, 2024!
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Pop quiz!
What's going on in this picture?
Did you get it right? Tell us in the comments!
In the winter, when trees are dormant, we advise to prune "crossing branches." And this is why!
Active growth, combined with friction from wind and weather can cause the bark and cambium of both branches to wear. Open wounds leave vascular structures open to disease, pests, and ...decay.
Wear like this happens over the course of a few years. And ultimately, the trees could heal around each other, fusing those branches. However, this can lead to structural weaknesses further down the road.
This is not an issue that needs to be immediately addressed, unless the tree/branches are showing signs of distress. During the next pruning cycle this should be taken care of.
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