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Gardening Online Fact Sheets

Our Gardening fact sheets cover the following topics:

Basics
Diseases
Flowers
Fruits & Vegetables
Insects - Home & Garden

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Basics
XCM-206	Pollution Prevention in Colorado Commercial Greenhouses	PDF
XCM-221	Homeowner's Guide to Alternative Pest Management for the Lawn and Garden	PDF
XCM-222	Homeowner's Guide to Fertilizing Your Lawn and Garden	PDF
XCM-220	Homeowner's Guide to Pesticide Use Around the Home and Garden	PDF
XCM-223	Homeowner's Guide to Protecting Water Quality and the Environment	PDF
0.507	Soil, Water and Plant Testing	PDF
4.702	Drip Irrigation for Home Gardens	PDF
7.214	Mulches for Home Grounds	PDF
7.220	Colorado Gardening: Challenge to Newcomers	PDF
7.225	Landscaping for Energy Conservation	PDF
7.228	Xeriscaping: Creative Landscaping	PDF
7.234	Xeriscaping: Retrofit Your Yard	PDF
7.235	Choosing a Soil Amendment	PDF
7.236	Landscaping on Expansive Soils	PDF
7.238	Container Gardens	PDF
7.239	Operating and Maintaining a Home Irrigation System	PDF
7.240	Home Landscape Watering During Drought	PDF
7.244	Colorado Mountain Gardening Basics	PDF
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Diseases
2.900	Necrotic Ring Spot in Turfgrass	PDF
2.901	Ascochyta Leaf Blight of Turf	PDF
2.902	Powdery Mildews	PDF
2.903	Nonchemical Disease Control	PDF
2.904	Juniper-Hawthorn Rust	PDF
2.907	Fire Blight	PDF
2.908	Fairy Ring in Turfgrass	PDF
2.909	Leaf Spot and Melting Out Diseases	PDF
2.910	Bacterial Wetwood	PDF
2.920	Aspen and Poplar Leaf Spots	PDF
2.925	Dwarf Mistletoe Management	PDF
2.926	Healthy Roots and Healthy Trees	PDF
2.930	Sycamore Anthracnose	PDF
2.931	Strawberry Diseases	PDF
2.932	Environmental Disorders of Woody Plants	PDF
2.933	Dollar Spot Disease of Turfgrass	PDF
2.937	Cytospora Canker	PDF
2.939	Honeylocust Diseases	PDF
2.945	Friendly Pesticides for Home Gardens	PDF
2.946	Diseases of Roses in Colorado	PDF
2.947	Greenhouse Plant Viruses (TSWV/INSV)	PDF
2.948	Pinyon Pine Diseases and Insects	PDF
2.949	Recognizing Tomato Problems	PDF
2.951	Xanthomonas Leaf Blight of Onion	PDF
5.595	Managing Houseplant Pests	PDF
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Flowers
7.231	Xeriscaping: Garden Flowers	PDF
7.233	Wildflowers in Colorado	PDF
7.237	Edible Flowers	PDF
7.242	Native Herbaceous Perennials for Colorado Landscapes	PDF
7.401	Rock Garden Plants	PDF
7.402	Perennial Gardening	PDF
7.404	Selecting and Planting Roses	PDF
7.405	Herbaceous Perennials	PDF
7.406	Flowers for Mountain Communities	PDF
7.410	Fall-Planted Bulbs and Corms	PDF
7.411	Spring-Planted Bulbs, Corms and Roots	PDF
7.412	Poinsettias	PDF
7.416	Rose Culture	PDF
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Fruits and Vegetables
2.800	Backyard Orchard: Apples and Pears	PDF
2.804	Backyard Orchard: Stone Fruits	PDF
7.000	Strawberries for the Home Garden	PDF
7.001	Raspberries for the Home Garden	PDF
7.002	Pollination of Tree Fruits	PDF
7.003	Training and Pruning Fruit Trees	PDF
7.005	Currants, Gooseberries and Jostaberries	PDF
7.221	Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds	PDF
7.601	Storage of Home-Grown Vegetables	PDF
7.602	Saving Seed	PDF
7.604	Vegetable Root Crops	PDF
7.607	Sweet Corn for the Garden	PDF
7.608	Leafy Vegetable Crops	PDF
7.609	Cucumbers, Pumpkins, Squash and Melons	PDF
7.610	Potatoes for the Home Garden	PDF
7.614	Onion and Related Species	PDF
7.616	Peppers and Eggplant	PDF
9.335	Growing, Preserving and Using Herbs	PDF
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Trees and Shrubs
7.208	Hedges	PDF
7.229	Xeriscaping: Trees and Shrubs	PDF
7.403	Evergreen Trees	PDF
7.414	Evergreen shrubs for home grounds	PDF
7.415	Deciduous Shrubs	PDF
7.418	Small Deciduous Trees	PDF
7.419	Large Deciduous Trees	PDF
7.420	Protecting Trees During Construction	PDF
7.421	Native Trees for Colorado Landscapes	PDF
7.422	Native Shrubs for Colorado Landscapes	PDF
7.423	Trees and Shrubs for Mountain Areas	PDF
7.424	Flowering Crabapple Trees	PDF
7.425	Magnesium Chloride Toxicity in Trees	PDF
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Yard
3.100	Broadleaf Weed Control in Lawns	PDF
3.101	Control of Weedy Grasses in Home Lawns	PDF
7.007	Eliminate Grass Clipping Collection	PDF
7.199	Watering Established Lawns	PDF
7.202	Lawn Care	PDF
7.211	Fall and Winter Watering	PDF
7.212	Composting Yard Waste	PDF
7.227	Growing Turf on Salt-Affected Sites	PDF
7.230	Xeriscaping: Ground Cover Plants	PDF
7.232	Ornamental Grasses	PDF
7.241	Renovating the Home Lawn	PDF
7.243	Sustainable Landscaping	PDF
7.400	Ground Cover Plants	PDF
7.413	Ground Covers and Rock Garden Plants for Mountain Communities	PDF
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Gardening Online Fact Sheets

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Diseases

Flowers

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Trees and Shrubs

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