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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 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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Smart Gardening for Pollinators
How to protect and support bees, butterflies and other pollinators in your yard and garden.
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Mulching leaves into turf
Tips on leaf mulching to prepare your lawn for the fall.
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Smart Reasons to Choose Native Plants
Smart Gardening: Lawns and waterfronts benefit from using native plants.
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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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Soil Tests
Tips on performing soil tests to learn your crop needs
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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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Healthy, smart soil
Tips on soil compositions that benefit plants the most
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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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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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Mulching to control weeds
Tips on mulching to efficiently control weed spread
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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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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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Smart Gardening to support monarchs
Published on January 6, 2017
Support monarchs with a season-long display of flowering trees, shrubs and perennials in your yard. Include milkweed for the caterpillars. -
Smart Gardening: Invite pollinators by creating a smart habitat
Published on April 5, 2016
There are many ways you can make your landscape more inviting for bees and other pollinators. -
Smart Gardening: Smart lawn alternatives to protect pollinators
Published on April 5, 2016
Create pollinator-friendly lawns that are inviting to bees and other pollinators. -
Gardening for pollinators: Smart plants to support pollinators
Published on April 5, 2016
Pollinators and native bees will feed on many different types of flowering plants in your landscape and garden. -
Planting a smart vegetable garden
Published on April 5, 2016
Considering which vegetables you like, how much space you have for them and how you'll meet their growing requirements will help you achieve a rewarding harvest. -
Smart Gardening Press Vol. 2, No. 1
Published on June 2, 2014
Volume 2, Number 1 of the Smart Gardening Press
