Keep these handy guides ready when problems emerge.

Get your guide to solving garden problems! Download any of these print friendly info sheets for a quick and easy guide that can help you navigate a variety of issues. 

Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

• When to Plant in Illinois English | Spanish
• Garden Tool Maintenance 
• Fall Garden Checklist English | Spanish
• How to Grow Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs in Container Gardens
• Soil Health
  • Composting 101 English | Spanish
  • When and How to Take a Soil Test English | Spanish
  • Indoor Worm Composting
  • Cover Crops in the Home Garden
• Seeds
  • How to Save Seeds
  • Seed Viability and Germination
  • Pelleted Seed
• Pests and diseases
  • Cucurbit Pests
  • Blossom End Rot 
• Herbs
  • Growing Parsley
  • Planting and Growing Garlic 
• Vegetables 
  • Cool Season Vegetables
  • How to Grow a Salsa Garden
• Harvesting
  • Harvest and Store Garden Vegetables
  • Donate Homegrown Produce to Food Pantries

Pests and Diseases

• Reports on Plant Disease
• Pantry Pests
• Boxwood Blight 
• Emerging Diseases in Illinois 
• Laurel Wilt on Sassafras 
• Downy Mildew of Grape
• Plant Growth Regulator Herbicide Injury 
• Poison Hemlock
• Invasive species 
  • Jumping worms English | Spanish
  • Spotted Lanternfly
  • Chaff flower
  • Garlic Mustard: Homeowners, Land managers.