Yard and Garden: Maintaining Your Yard in Summer
Summer marks the season when your lawn can look its best – if you know how to maintain it properly. ISU Extension and Outreach horticulturists offer some tips that can help.
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Yard and Garden: Control Crabgrass
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach horticulturists offer tips on controlling crabgrass.
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Yard and Garden: Properly Aerating Lawns
Aeration is an important part of lawn care, but take care to aerate properly and at the correct time of the year. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach horticulturists offer tips on the proper way to aerate a yard.
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Yard and Garden: Properly Treating Lawns In Fall for Spring Results
Fall is the perfect time to treat lawns for optimal spring performance. Treating now assures lawns will be ready for spring growth.
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Yard and Garden: Properly Handling Fall Lawn Care
Fall’s arrival brings a natural question: Even though the weather has turned cooler, how does lawn care and preparation change? Colder weather doesn't mean lawns should be ignored.
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Yard and Garden: Proper Iowa Mowing Practices
Spring has finally sprung across Iowa, and with it, growing green grass on lawns everywhere. The hum of lawn mowers is beginning to fill the air, and that hum brings questions about proper mowing practices.
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Improve Lawn Quality with Four Extension Publications
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach has published four publications to serve as guides for residential yardwork.
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Yard and Garden: Properly Handling Summer Lawn Care
Officially, summer doesn’t begin until June 21, but Memorial Day marked the unofficial start of summer. With it comes the need for lawn care. It can be hot, sweaty work, but there’s no questioning its necessity.
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Yard and Garden: Handling and Caring for Lawns in Fall
Fall is a perfect time to prepare lawns for the upcoming year with seeding, aeration and fertilization.
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Tips for a Successful Yard this Year
How to care for a lawn and set it up for success throughout the spring, summer and fall is the subject of an article in the March edition of the Small Farm Sustainability newsletter. The March issue also discusses beef cattle production, acreage ponds, prescribed burns, and pruning trees and shrubs.
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