MSU Extension Smart Gardening

Showing results for content tagged 'smart gardening'. Search instead for the keyword 'smart gardening'.

• 

  Smart Gardening

  Smart Gardening is MSU Extension’s campaign using earth-friendly messages to help gardeners make smart choices in their own backyards.

---

• 

  Smart Gardening with Vegetables 101

  This course covers gardening from start to finish: what you need to get started, types of gardening, planning and preparation, soil preparation, plants to select, starting and maintaining healthy plants, garden maintenance, harvest and storage, pollinators and various gardening activities.

• Mar 11

  Cabin Fever Conversations - Conversations in the community with Kelly McClelland and Edible Flint

  March 11, 2022 12:00pm Zoom

  This FREE series aims to help connect you to your garden and fellow gardeners, even when we are stuck inside.

• Feb 11

  Cabin Fever Conversations - Cultivars explained with Barslund Judd

  February 11, 2022 12:00pm Zoom

  This FREE series aims to help connect you to your garden and fellow gardeners, even when we are stuck inside.

• Jan 14

  Cabin Fever Conversations - Indoor plants with Hillary Coleman

  January 14, 2022 12:00pm Zoom

  This FREE series aims to help connect you to your garden and fellow gardeners, even when we are stuck inside.

• Soil Tests

  Tips on performing soil tests to learn your crop needs

• Saving Monarchs: What you plant can make a difference

  Help monarchs by planting milkweeds and a variety of flowers that bloom throughout summer and fall. Monarch caterpillars only eat milkweed. The butterfly survives on nectar from various flowers and so needs blooming flowers all summer and fall

• New for 2020: When and how to prune ornamental plants with examples of plants that can be pruned to the ground

  Watch this short Smart Gardening video from Michigan State University Extension for basic tips for pruning shrubs and small trees. This version includes images of some plants that can be cut back down to the ground for a rejuvenating pruning.

• New for 2020: Smart Gardening: When and How to Prune Ornamental Plants - 1-Minute Version

  There are many reasons to prune ornamental plants. Watch this 1-minute Smart Gardening video from Michigan State University Extension to learn more about when and how to prune ornamental plants in your landscape.

• Matching Native Plants to Your Yards Needs

  Smart Gardening: A homeowner explains his yard’s challenges, and how they’re met with native plants.

• Smart Gardening to Deter Deer

  How to deal with deer damage in your yard or garden with three Smart Gardening Tips: (1) Choose SMART plants that deer do not like; (2) Apply SMART repellants to deter deer; and (3) Create SMART barriers to block deer.

• Smart Gardening for Pollinators

  How to protect and support bees, butterflies and other pollinators in your yard and garden.

• Controlling grubs in lawns and turfgrass

  Learn how to mow your lawn, how to fertilize and how much to water your lawn to control grubs.

• Mulching to control weeds

  Tips on mulching to efficiently control weed spread

• Smart Reasons to Choose Native Plants

  Smart Gardening: Lawns and waterfronts benefit from using native plants.

• Mulching leaves into turf

  Tips on leaf mulching to prepare your lawn for the fall.

• Smart Gardening: Soils

  Published on July 10, 2014

  MSU extension Smart Gardening series on soil.

• Healthy, smart soil

  Tips on soil compositions that benefit plants the most

• Smart Gardening Webinar: Captivating Caterpillars

  Published on July 22, 2020

  Join Lepidopteran lover Dr. Duke Elsner in a look at many types of caterpillars that may be munching on your gardens.

• 

  Nathaniel Walton

  Consumer Horticulture Educator
  waltonn2@msu.edu
  231-256-9888
  

• 

  Water-smart landscapes by design

  Published on May 12, 2016
  Planning a water-smart garden begins with understanding your site.