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Interest in gardening stretches across geographic borders and age levels. You'll find how-to tips and gardening guidelines at Yard and Garden Online.

Check out the new Master Gardener Web site.

Wondering about mushrooms and morels? 
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

2/3/2010 - Ask the ISU Extension Garden Experts: Cut Flowers, Gloxinia, Selecting an Arborist
This week's answers discuss steps to keep fresh flowers fresh, caring for gloxinias and how to go about selecting a skilled arborist.
1/28/2010 - Ask the ISU Extension Garden Experts: Cold Hardiness, Pears and Deer Damage
This week's answers discuss cold hardiness of fruit trees, types of pears to grow in Iowa and deer damage caused by the hard winter.
1/21/2010 - Ask the ISU Extension Garden Experts: Onions, Cold Frames, Lenten Roses and Primroses
This week's answers discuss the best varieties of onions for Iowa gardens, where to locate a cold frame, growing the Lenten rose in Iowa and caring for primroses.
1/14/2010 - Ask the ISU Extension Garden Experts: Venus Flytrap, Botanical Insecticides and Seed Germination
This week's answers discuss how to care for the Venus flytrap insect-eating plant, naturally-occurring insecticides derived from plants and the optimum temperature for potting mix when you are trying to germinate seeds.
1/13/2010 - IFVGA Annual Meeting Welcomes Beginning Farmers, Agritourism Interests
The past decade has delivered some changes in Iowa agriculture, including more farmers being involved in fruit and vegetable production. That’s why the Iowa Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association will include a distinct track for beginning farmers during its 2010 annual meeting and conference in Des Moines.