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Extension Publications

Herbaceous
  • Bacterial Leaf Diseases of Foliage Plants
  • Diseases of Peony
  • Establishing and Maintaining a Prairie Garden
  • Fungicides for the Home Garden
  • Gardening in the Shade
  • Gladiolus Diseases
  • Managing Aquatic Plants in Minnesota Lakes
  • Preventing Pollution Problems from Lawn and Garden Fertilizers
  • Pruning Perennials
  • Storing Tender Bulbs and Bulblike Structures

    Woody

  • Ash Yellows in Minnesota
  • Birch Leafminers
  • Bronze Birch Borer and Its Management, The
  • Disease Management Recommendations for Trees and Shrubs
  • Diseases of Trees and Shrubs
  • Growing Grapes for Home Use
  • Gypsy Moth: A Threat to Minnesota
  • History of Dutch Elm Disease in Minnesota
  • Home Fruit Spray Guide
  • Insect and Mite Galls
  • Insect and Mite Galls in the Landscape
  • Insect Pests of Roses
  • Insecticide Suggestions to Manage Landscape Tree and Shrub Insects
  • Leaf and Needle Diseases of Trees
  • Leaf Beetles in Urban Landscapes
  • Minimizing De-Icing Salt Injury to Trees
  • Native Elm Bark Beetle Control
  • Planting and Transplanting Trees and Shrubs
  • Pruning Trees and Shrubs
  • Protecting Trees and Shrubs Against Winter Damage
  • Protecting Trees From Construction Damage, a Homeowner's Guide
  • Rose Diseases
  • Sawflies of Trees and Shrubs
  • Scale Insects of Trees and Shrubs
  • Verticillium Wilt of Trees and Shrubs

    Other

  • Backyard Composting
  • Characteristics of Natural and Manufactured Fertilizers for Lawns
  • Composting and Mulching: A Guide to Managing Organic Yard Waste
  • Home Yard Waste Chippers/Shredders: Safety Is Important!
  • Lawn and Garden: Preparing Pesticide Containers for Disposal
  • Lead in the Home Garden and Urban Soil Environment
  • Preventing Pollution Problems from Lawn and Garden Fertilizers
  • Soils and Landscapes of Minnesota
  • Structures for Backyard Composting

  • Info U Publications

    Herbaceous
  • Bulbs - Digging and Storing Non-Hardy Bulbs
  • Care of Tulips and Daffodils After Blooming
  • Covering Perennials for Winter
  • Drying Flowers
  • Easy Weed Control
  • Iris Borer
  • Late Spring Frosts
  • Picnic Beetles
  • Saving Geraniums Over Winter
  • Spring Bulbs and Hard Frosts
  • Starting Seeds Indoors
  • Uncovering Perennials
  • Woody

  • Anthracnose Leaf Spot of Shade Trees
  • Aphids on Trees and Shrubs
  • Apple Maggots: Controlling
  • Apple Maggots: Identifying Damage
  • Ash Plant Bugs
  • Ash Tree Decline
  • Aster Yellows
  • Black Knot of Cherry
  • Bronze Birch Borer
  • Caterpillar-like sawfly larvae eating evergreen needles
  • Cottony Maple Scale
  • Maple Trees Dropping Leaves
  • Oak Wilt - Identifying
  • Oak Wilt - Preventing
  • Protecting Trees from Winter Damage
  • Pruning Shrubs
  • Rose Chafers Eat Irregular Feeding Holes
  • Roses--Fertilizing
  • Roses--Protect for Winter
  • Shade Tree Decline
  • Starting Roses
  • Storm-Damaged Trees
  • Trees - Pruning
  • Trees Weeping Along the Bark
  • Uncovering Roses
  • Winter Damage to Trees and Shrubs

    Other

  • Composting Fall Leaves
  • Making Compost
  • Manufactured vs. Natural Fertilizers
  • Fertilizers, Phosphorus and Water Pollution
  • What Can You Compost?

  • Yard & Garden Briefs

    Herbaceous
  • Aster Yellows
  • Controlling Quackgrass in Gardens
  • Diseases of Daylilies
  • Diseases of Geraniums
  • Dodder
  • Fourlined Plant Bug
  • Geranium Rust
  • Hollyhock Rust
  • Iris Borer
  • Iris Leaf Spot
  • Overwintering Fuchsias
  • Purple Loosestrife
  • Stem Rot of Clematis
  • Woody

  • Anthracnose and Other Fungal Leaf Spot Diseases of Maple
  • Anthracnose of Ash Trees
  • Anthracnose of Oak Trees
  • Aphids on Trees & Shrubs
  • Apple Russeting
  • Apple Scab
  • Armillaria Root Rot
  • Ash Rust
  • Ash and Honeylocust Plant Bugs
  • Bacterial Blight of Lilac
  • Birch Dieback
  • Bird's Nests, Sphere Throwers and Shotguns
  • Black Knot
  • Black Rot Canker
  • Buckthorn Rust
  • Canker Diseases on Minnesota Pines
  • Cankers on Trees
  • Cedar-Apple Rust
  • Cherry Leaf Spot (Shot Hole)
  • Cytospora Canker of Spruce
  • Diplodia (Sphaeropsis) Blight of Pines
  • Dothistroma Needle Blight
  • Dutch Elm Disease Resistant Elm Cultivars
  • Fertilizing Evergreens
  • Fire Blight
  • Gall Diseases on Minnesota Pines
  • Harvesting Black Walnuts
  • Hiring an Arborist
  • Honeysuckle Leaf Blight
  • Honeysuckle Witches' Broom Aphid
  • Hypoxylon Canker on Aspens and Willows
  • Iron Chlorosis
  • Lace Bugs
  • Lichens on Trees
  • Lirula Needlecast
  • Minnesota Tip Method of Protecting Garden Roses
  • Mulberry
  • Nectria Canker
  • Oak Anthracnose
  • Pine Needle Rust
  • Poison Ivy & Its Control
  • Powdery Mildew on Ornamental Plants
  • Pruning Large Trees--Thinning out vs Topping
  • Removing Sap and Honeydew from Cars
  • Removing Trees and Shrubs
  • Rhizosphaera Needle Cast
  • Root Rot of Azaleas and Rhododendrons
  • Rose Chafer
  • Septoria Leaf Spot and Canker of Poplar, Aspen and Cottonwood
  • Shade Tree Decline
  • Sirococcus Tip Blight
  • Smooth Patch
  • Sooty Blotch & Flyspeck on Apple Fruits
  • Sooty Mold
  • Thinning Fruit Trees
  • Toxicity of Black Walnuts Towards Other Plants
  • Wetwood
  • White Pine Blister Rust
  • Wood Decay
  • Woolly Aphids on Deciduous Trees & Shrubs

    Other

  • Voles
  • Woodpeckers On and Around Homes in Minnesota

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