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Events
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Stateline Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference
Mon, 02/06/2023 - 12:00
NIU-Rockford
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2023 Southern IL Fruit & Vegetable School
Wed, 02/08/2023 - 12:00
Mount Vernon Hotel and Event Center
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2023 Southwestern Illinois Commercial Tree Fruit School
Thu, 02/09/2023 - 12:00
Knights of Columbus Hall
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Spring into Gardening 2023
Sat, 02/25/2023 - 12:00
Broadway Christian Church
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Pruning Apples and More | Christian County
Thu, 03/02/2023 - 12:00
Christian County Extension or Online
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Lessons for Living: Fall in Love with Apples | Macoupin County
Tue, 09/26/2023 - 12:00
Macoupin County Extension
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Blog Posts
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Love tree fruit, love the planet: Enjoy a fruiting plant for many years
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Use terminal bud scars to gage growth rate of trees
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Interesting and Brief: A History of Apples & Their Uses
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Manage brown rot of peaches and other stone fruit in the garden
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Visit a forest of food at The Refuge Food Forest
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Planning spray schedules for fruit trees
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Make your tree fruit and small fruit pruning plans now; reach out to Extension for resources
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Choose apple trees for size and pollination
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Do a little 2022 garden planning
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Hazelnuts: A native plant is a new crop for Illinois
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Winterizing your home orchard
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How to get fruit plants ready for winter: Start preparing for a successful harvest
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A tough nut to crack: Unlock the healthy benefits of black walnuts
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Pawpaws are a native fall fruit that taste delightful
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Make way for apple season
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Celebrate National Peach Month
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The wonderful wild pawpaw: America's largest, least-known tree fruit
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Honeyberries are an early-season treat for berry lovers
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Protect apple foliage and fruit with a spray schedule
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Don’t lose your crabapple and apple foliage
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Time to do all kinds of pruning
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Where is all our fruit? Four big factors of fruit tree production
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Black currant: growing favor for a blast of flavor.
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Manage pests and disease in home orchards
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Benefits of training your apple and fruit trees
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How plants survive freezing temperatures
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Fruit tree pollination is complicated
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Fruit trees have a place, even in a small yard
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How to prune fruit trees for healthier trees and better harvests
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Ordering seeds from garden catalogs
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How to winterize your young and fruit trees
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Pawpaw
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Weather influences foliar disease
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Bacterial Leaf Scorch Infecting Illinois Oaks
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Controlling Spotted-Wing Drosophila
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How to Prune Fruit Trees and Maximize your Home Orchard
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How to Plant a Fruit Tree
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More Early Spring FAQs: Lawns, Trees and Seeds
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Chilling Hours Help Break Spring Dormancy
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Peach Leaf Curl
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The history of blueberries: From Native American staple to domesticated superfood
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Answers for Early Spring FAQs
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Enjoy spring blooms twice this year
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Creating an Edible Landscape
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Training your Apple Tree
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What’s Not-So-New in the Home Orchard
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Not All Trees Are Good Trees
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Preparing Black Walnuts for Eating
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News Releases
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Get the dirt on growing healthy plants
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Fruit trees need an annual trim to bear best fruit
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Build confidence in fruit tree pruning with free educational workshop
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Time to prune the fruit trees: Let University of Illinois Extension help you this winter with upcoming programs
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Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice
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2021 Fruit & Vegetable VIRTUAL Conference
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Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021
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Fruits on Friday
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Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season
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Use winter to plan for a fruit garden
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Time to prune the fruit trees: Let University of Illinois Extension help you this winter with upcoming webinars
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Grow apple trees in your urban garden
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Get Growing webinar series announced for growing vegetables and fruit
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All About Berries Series in Christian County
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Successful Backyard Orchard program
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Conferences Set for Fruit and Vegetable Growers Feb. 4 & 5
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Pruning Apples and More Workshop - Macoupin County
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Pruning Apples and More Workshop - Montgomery County
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Mileur Orchard to Host Upcoming Twilight Meeting
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Residents Learn about Production and Marketing of Fruit
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Staff
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Christopher Enroth
Horticulture Educator
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Nick Frillman
Local Food Systems and Small Farms Educator
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Andrew Holsinger
Horticulture Educator
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Ken Johnson
Horticulture Educator
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