Home Lawns
The home lawn and the turf areas surrounding churches, parks, and office buildings do more than just serve as pleasant green backdrops. The grass plants that make up the lawns serve as miniature air-conditioners and pollution-abatement ... [... more]
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Home Lawn: Control Weeds
Weed control in a lawn begins with a healthy, vigorous, dense stand of turf. Healthy turf helps control weeds by growing to fill bare areas, shading the soil surface, and shading newly emerged weed seedlings. Without sunlight, many weed seedlings ... [... more]
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MSUcares: Lawn and Garden
Lawn and Garden content page. Links to subject areas of Master Gardener and Home Lawn, Garden, and Landscape. Lawn and Garden information is divided into four subject areas: [... more]
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Home Gardening
This area of our website is designed to help the home gardener find needed information about all aspects of gardening. According to the National Gardening Association, gardening in the United State is at an all time high. Individuals from 85 ... [... more]
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Home Gardening: Flowers
Annuals and perennials spice the landscape with their colorful flowers and foliage. Beds of color provide brilliant accents against backgrounds of permanent plantings, soften man-made lines, and provide graceful transitions from one outdoor area ... [... more]
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Home Gardening: Youth
A garden can be a wonderful place for children. Gardens provide opportunities for play, learning, and for having fun. As our society becomes more urbanized and less connected with nature, gardens provide chances for children to learn about ... [... more]
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Home Gardening: Herbs
Although our climate makes it difficult to grow some herbs, there are many that we can grow very successfully. We just have to select the right ones! You can harvest armloads of basil, lemon balm, Texas tarragon, (Tagetes lucida), catnip, German ... [... more]
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Home Gardening: Vegetables
There are many good reasons for growing a vegetable garden in Mississippi. A garden offers the opportunity to enjoy vegetables at their freshest. There are many good reasons for growing a vegetable garden in Mississippi. A garden offers the ... [... more]
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Home Gardening: Plant Disease
The "current situation" may be obtained by email by contacting Dr. R. Alan Henn, Associate Specialist, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University. Other Plant Disease Information Garden Vegetable Diseases Lawn ... [... more]
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Home Gardening: Mississippi Gardens
August 1, 2005-Simple Tasks to Rejuvenate Landscape & Containerized Plants June 20, 2005-Look for six common causes of tomato wilt in the South Kerry Johnson is a hobby gardener, weekly newspaper columnist and an Area Extension Horticulture Agent ... [... more]
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Quick-Reference List for Perennial Uses
Quick-Reference List for Perennial Uses - When and where to plant. Planting a few perennials and annuals around a hard feature such as a bench, urn, or birdbath gives an interesting all-season scene. Mixing groups of contrasting shapes or ... [... more]
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Selected Herbaceous Perennials for Mississippi Gardens
The following are some of the most popular and dependable perennials enjoyed by Mississippi gardeners. Perennial plants have been long enjoyed for their flowers and foliage and for their ability to return to our gardens for many years with little ... [... more]
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