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A man wearing a cap stands grimly behind a fence, glaring angrily at the neighbors.

Horticultural Pet Peeves

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Every Job Has Best PracticesIn all professions, from astronauts to zookeepers and everything in between, we learn and perform tasks that, in our minds, are the best practices. Imagine you are a professional shower-tile installer, and I am a guy who learned to tile a shower on YouTube. If you were...
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Crabgrass stages a takover of the lawn - crabgrass looking very healthy as it spreads in grass in a suburban back yard

Garden Vocabulary: Water Grass

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It started as an ordinary phone call. A homeowner contacted the Extension office with a question about controlling a grassy weed in her lawn. A weed she knew was ubiquitous in lawn care. However, when she said the name “water grass,” I was dumbfounded. The voice on the other end of the line seemed...
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a patch of blooming creeping Charlie plants

Managing creeping Charlie in home landscapes

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As we go through our landscapes in spring and begin the inevitable task of weeding, there is one plant we commonly encounter. It creeps through shaded lawns, slips beneath shrubs, and roots wherever it touches the soil. With its small purple flowers, creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea)...
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No Mow May. It’s almost May; is it time to stop mowing? Lawn mower in a yard with blooming dandelions

It’s almost May; is it time to stop mowing?

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Did you notice people’s lawns getting a little long last May? No Mow May has become a popular way to help pollinators. No Mow May began in the United Kingdom in 2019 as a way to help struggling pollinator populations. The idea is that if people don’t mow their lawns during May, it will allow ‘...
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