MSU Extension Gardening in Michigan

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  MSU Extension launches new Wild About Backyard Conservation webinar series

  Published on June 8, 2020
  Explore ways your backyard can protect and promote wildlife and clean water with MSU Extension experts.

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  Celebrate the diversity of caterpillars

  Published on June 5, 2020
  Free Smart Gardening webinar explores the many types of caterpillars that may be in your garden.

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  Smart Gardening with Vegetables 101: Growing your garden tips

  Published on June 5, 2020
  Follow these vegetable garden steps in June to ensure productivity later.

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  Free Smart Gardening Series offered online

  Published on June 4, 2020
  Join us for online sessions on beekeeping, wildlife damage management, pollinator-friendly landscaping, vegetable garden insects, the Upper Peninsula hotline responder team and garden resources, and tips for using your fruits and vegetables.

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  Monarch research takes flight in a social distancing world

  Published on June 4, 2020
  Responding to restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these field researchers reorganized and are amplifying their monarch conservation study through the power of citizen science.

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  New, free poison ivy bulletin available for ID, control and more

  Published on June 2, 2020
  MSU Extension has released a new bulletin on identifying poison ivy, look-alike species, the irritant substance and options for control.

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  Broad-leaved helleborine: A weedy orchid invading lawns and flowerbeds

  Published on June 2, 2020
  Broad-leaved helleborine is once again causing trouble for those finding it in their lawns and flowerbeds.

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  Gypsy moth caterpillars are out and about

  Published on June 1, 2020
  Oaks and many other trees are likely to be defoliated by gypsy moth this summer in many areas of Lower Michigan.

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  Yellow and orange hawkweed flowering in turf

  Published on May 28, 2020
  Often confused for dandelions, hawkweed is now flowering in lawns.

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  Lawns are growing quickly and seedheads are appearing

  Published on May 28, 2020
  Warm temperatures and abundant precipitation have resulted in rapid turf growth and seedheads are now appearing in lawns.