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  • Vegetable and Fruit News-June 2021

  • Do pre-weaned calves need forage?

  • Growing Beans in a Home Garden

    … to hummingbirds. Harvests are larger when pollinating bees are plentiful and more than one cultivar is planted. …

  • Start Growing Thornless Blackberries: How to Prepare and Select Cultivars for the Mid-Atlantic (FS-2023-0660)

    … for the Mid-Atlantic Figure 1. (Right) plant architecture of an erect blackberry bush. (Left) plant architecture of a … author. Blackberries are a hardy plant and a great summer fruit option for a diversified farm, a U-Pick or a garden. … online calculator. One such lime calculator table from the University of Delaware Cooperative Extension is listed in …

  • Soil Health (FS-2025-0754)

    … health is “the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and … organic materials drives the soil food web and encourages all the other activities and services of organisms (Figure … all interrelated. Soil organisms are critical for building good soil structure, ensuring air and water movements through …

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  • Hop Production

  • Animal Science

  • Pest-Predictive Calendar

    … stage(s) (stage you want to target for control measures) of pest insects are active by using plant phenological … Sheet      P = links to a UMD Extension page with multiple images or non-UMD pages Phenological sequence of plant … borer Synanthedon pictipes adult emergence (1st gen) 468 A Oak erricoccin scale (oak felt scale) Acanthococcus quercus …

  • The Challenge of Growing a Lawn in Maryland

    … It’s time to rethink our lawns and landscapes A lush green lawn is often expected as part of the typical American home … We receive questions from Maryland residents when their lawn contains weeds or brown spots, does not grow well, or … rules and expectations and powerful advertising for lawn care products suggest that it does. We may be influenced by …