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Identifying edible mushrooms, morels, and other fungi can be a challenge, even for a specialist. Eat only those you can identify without a doubt.

Yard and Garden News

11/23/2009 - Mealybugs Make a Meal of Your Houseplants
Difficult to control mealybugs look like small white puffs of cotton on African violets, ficus, jade gardenia, poinsettia and other indoor plants.

11/18/2009 - Ask the ISU Extension Garden Experts: Protecting Trees, Crown Gall and Houseplants
This week's answers discuss what to do to protect trees from nearby construction activity, the impact of crown gall on rose bushes and how houseplants can improve the air quality in your home.

11/16/2009 - Preparing Evergreens for Winter
Protection efforts this fall will help your evergreen plantings make it safely through the winter.

11/12/2009 - Ask the ISU Extension Garden Experts: Rubber Trees, Begonias and Arbor Vitae
This week's answers discuss how to propagate a rubber tree, humidity conditions needed by rex begonias and what browning of arborvitae needles indicates.

11/9/2009 - Why You Should Worry about Your Walnuts
Thousand cankers disease is a malady looming on the western horizon that has already claimed many Eastern Black Walnut trees transplanted to the western states.