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If you’ve been browsing seed catalogs lately, you may have noticed that many varieties have completely sold out, and some companies have stopped taking orders from gardeners entirely. There are reasons for seed shortages and ways to get...
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Designate a notebook to be your yard and garden journal. Keep track of ideas and goals for your landscape. Note dates you see birds return, plants emerge, fruits and vegetables are harvested. Keep a record of what you plant including when...
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Minnesota is home to the ingredients for a folk remedy often used for medicinal purposes. Chaga is a fungus that takes the form of a conk, the spore producing fruiting structure of the fungus.
Chaga (also called the clinker polypore) is...
The final weeks of winter, and even the first few weeks of spring, are still chilly in many parts of the world. Despite those last vestiges of winter chills, late winter is a great time to begin preparing gardens for the coming planting season.
Gardens may have to withstand months of harsh weather...
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Our winter / spring vegetable series focused on helping you anticipate and prepare for the growing season’s potential problems continues. Let’s talk tomatoes! Two important tomato management strategies to prepare for before the season...
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Sandea injury symptoms on a pumpkin leaf. University of Kentucky.
A good question came in last week about if and how the herbicide Sandea can injure pumpkins. I consulted with Dr. Sushila Chaudhari at Michigan State University, as...
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We all know the varieties we select are one of the most important factors in how the farm season ahead will go. When flipping through seed catalogs, we are bombarded with acronyms for resistances and lots of big claims. Below are some...
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We’re starting a new series this spring: a biweekly crop by crop overview to help growers choose varieties, navigate different growing methods, and anticipate insects and diseases. Last year some of you said that while the summer vegetable...
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Pruning 1-year old grapevines at Rustic Roots Winery in Scandia, MN
Prune your grapevines between January and early April, while they are dormant and ideally before temperatures regularly exceed 35 degrees F. Hundreds of pruning...
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Over my two seasons as a vegetable crops educator in Minnesota, I've been surprised by the number of questions and photos I get about disorders that are related to irrigation issues. Have you ever experienced hollow heart in potatoes,...
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