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cindyha wrote 1 month ago: It’s great to see people are still reading these blog posts, but to view the most current Home … more →

Tags: Cindy's posts, composting tips, Farmer's Markets, food pantries, Gardening Events, Master gardeners, Your Photos, Your Questions, Blog

Slimy slugs

cindyha wrote 5 months ago: Laura Jesse, of Iowa State University Extension’s Plant & Insect Diagnostic Clinic, wrote the fo … more →

Tags: Bait, Beer, Damage, damp, dead, eat, Holes, hosta, Iowa

Iowa's weed season1 comment

cindyha wrote 6 months ago:    I’ve driven right past my plot in the city gardens, not recognizing it from what it was a week, o … more →

Tags: Control?, Cultivate, Garden, herbicides, hoe, HOW TO?, Identification, Identify, Iowa

Stop the killing! Take care of those seedlings3 comments

cindyha wrote 9 months ago: You’ve planted your seeds indoors, waited for them to sprout and one day find a container of tiny, d … more →

Tags: broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Containers, Cucumber, Damping-Off, die, eggplant, Extension

Spring pruning tips

cindyha wrote 9 months ago: Richard Jauron, extension horticulturist at Iowa State University, offers the following on spring pr … more →

Tags: Advice, April, Berries, black, blueberries, Buds, Canes, Crop, Currants

California Dreamin' - tree style

cindyha wrote 10 months ago: The following is by James Romer, Extension Horticulturist at Iowa State University:    This time of … more →

Tags: pruning, Gardeners, SAP, Tree Trimming, oak wilt, wound dressings, April, horticulturist, Trees

Attracting birds and other wintertime tips

cindyha wrote 1 year ago: The following Q&A is from Iowa State University Extension’s garden experts: I recently purchased … more →

Tags: Garden, Soil, Shrubs, winter, Trees, Iowa State University, Food, landscape, pH

Forcing daffodils

cindyha wrote 1 year ago: The following is from the Iowa State University Extension gardening experts: To successfully force d … more →

Tags: Soil, winter, Iowa State University, cold, Bulbs, Extension, Containers, Temperature, Indoors

Winterizing roses1 comment

cindyha wrote 1 year ago:   Every year around this time, my neighbor’s oak tree, two houses down, generously deposits a pile o … more →

Tags: Cindy's posts, Roses, winter, Iowa, oak, Iowa State University, mulch, Richard Jauron, leaves

Ladybugs, Lady Beetles

cindyha wrote 1 year ago:    They are red, orange or shades in between and tend to invade homes in late fall.    Ladybugs and … more →

Tags: Cindy's posts, winter, Iowa State University, donald lewis, entomologist, Houseplants, Control?, image, Photo

Suffocating conifers

cindyha wrote 1 year ago: The following is by Mark Gleason, plant pathologist at Iowa State University Extension:       The 20 … more →

Tags: Landscapes, Iowa, Trees, Iowa State University, Extension, conifers, flooding, Floods, diagnostic clinic

Winterizing mums1 comment

cindyha wrote 1 year ago:   The following is by Richard Jauron, horticulture specialist at Iowa State University Extension:   … more →

Tags: Soil, Plants, Iowa, Iowa State University, mulch, Richard Jauron, leaves, Extension, chrysanthemums

Overwintering geraniums1 comment

cindyha wrote 1 year ago: The following is by Richard Jauron, horticulture specialist at Iowa State University Extension: Gera … more →

Tags: Bareroots, cuttings, Extension, Fall, Geraniums, horticulture, Iowa State University, overwintering, Plants

Love me tender

cindyha wrote 1 year ago: James Romer, Iowa Master Gardener Coordinator at Iowa State University Extension, offers the followi … more →

Tags: Master Gardener, Begonia, winter, Iowa, Iowa State University, Digging, Bulbs, Extension, Containers

Harvesting winter squash1 comment

cindyha wrote 1 year ago: Richard Jauron, Horticulture Specialist at Iowa State University Extension, offers timely advice on … more →

Tags: harvest, Iowa State University, Richard Jauron, Extension, Curing, Cure, storing, Butternut, Hubbard

Overseeding lawns5 comments

cindyha wrote 1 year ago: Richard Jauron, Horticulture Specialist at Iowa State University Extension, offers the following on … more →

Tags: horticulture, lawn, Seedlings, germinate, Insects, Iowa, Iowa State University, Richard Jauron, landscape

Not so sweet pest

cindyha wrote 1 year ago: Entomologist Donald Lewis, of Iowa State University Extension, offers the following information abou … more →

Tags: Iowa, worm, Iowa State University, donald lewis, insecticide, Extension, larvae, sweet corn, corn earworm

Important information for flooded gardens

cindyha wrote 1 year ago: Patrick O’Malley, ISU Extension Eastern Iowa Commercial Horticulturist, and Duane Gissel, ISU Extens … more →

Tags: gardening, Vegetables, horticulture, Soil, Gardens, Iowa, Iowa State University Extension, Strawberries, produce

Bad "worms"2 comments

cindyha wrote 1 year ago: Iowa State University Extension gardening experts answer questions on damaging worms:   Worms are de … more →

Tags: cherries, cherry fruit fly, European pine sawfly, Extension, gardening, insecticide, Iowa State University, larvae, mugo pine


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