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Blog Posts (15)

Garden tasks to help get your landscape through the summer

Garden tasks to help get your landscape through the summer. vegetable and flower garden with mulch path in-between.

Integrated pest management key to preventing herbicide resistant weeds

Two Weeks after post-emergence herbicide application

Surveying winter damage as spring emerges

Are you ready for lawn care season

Large Crabgrass

5 Tips for a successful second year gardener

garden with fruit and veggies

Winter blooming hellebores - December, 2020

Hairy Crabweed is one bad weed! - August, 2020

Editing Aggressive Plants in the Garden - June 2020

Fall cleanup continues: beware of weed seeds

compost bin open with contents showing

Take your butterfly garden to the next level

Home Horticultural Remedies

Home Horticultural Remedies

Welcome to My Jungle - January, 2020

Weed Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace

creeping charlie and dandelion among turf grass

How to prevent crabgrass

crabgrass in lawn

Starting a Garden: Weed Management

Weed free tomatoes

News Releases (1)

Weeds or wildflowers? It's a matter of perspective

Staff (3)

Richard Hentschel

Richard Hentschel

Horticulture Educator

Sarah Vogel staff photo

Sarah Vogel

Horticulture and Natural Resources Educator

Michelle Wiesbrook

Michelle Wiesbrook

Extension Specialist, Weed Science