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Smart Gardening
Smart Gardening is MSU Extension’s campaign using earth-friendly messages to help gardeners make smart choices in their own backyards.
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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.
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Matching Native Plants to Your Yards Needs
Smart Gardening: A homeowner explains his yard’s challenges, and how they’re met with native plants.
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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.
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Mulching leaves into turf
Tips on leaf mulching to prepare your lawn for the fall.
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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
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Healthy, smart soil
Tips on soil compositions that benefit plants the most
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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.
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Smart Gardening for Pollinators
How to protect and support bees, butterflies and other pollinators in your yard and garden.
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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.
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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.
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Mulching to control weeds
Tips on mulching to efficiently control weed spread
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Smart Reasons to Choose Native Plants
Smart Gardening: Lawns and waterfronts benefit from using native plants.
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Soil Tests
Tips on performing soil tests to learn your crop needs
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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.
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Smart Gardening Press Vol. 3, No. 3
Published on October 1, 2015
Volume 3, Number 3 of the Smart Gardening Press -
Smart Gardening Press Vol. 1, No. 2
Published on May 1, 2013
Volume 1, Number 2 of the Smart Gardening Press -
Smart gardens begin with healthy soil
Published on May 12, 2016
Cultivating a robust vegetable garden or a dazzling flower bed starts with healthy soil. -
Smart Gardening: Pollination in vegetable gardens and backyard fruit
Published on October 1, 2018
Smart Gardening tip sheet on pollination in vegetable gardens and backyard fruit -
Smart Gardening: What makes a pollinator rare or endangered?
Published on March 16, 2020
This tip sheet introduces a few of the rarer pollinators that are poorly known and only referred to by their scientific names.
