CSU Extension, Home Gardening

Fact Sheets by Number

Also look at CMG GardenNotes by Number

0.500  Soils
2.800  Fruit
2.900  Plant Diseases
3.100  Weed Control
5.500  Entomology
6.300  Wildfire
6.500  Wildlife
6.700  Natural Resources
7.000  Gardening
7.200  Gardening
7.400  Gardening
7.600  Vegetables
9.300  Foods
XCM  Misc. Fact Sheets


Soils

0.501  Soil Testing --- Printable pdf
0.502  Soil Test Explanation --- Printable pdf
0.503  Managing Saline Soils --- Printable pdf
0.504  Managing Sodic Soils --- Printable pdf
0.507  Soil, Water and Plant Testing --- Printable pdf
0.520  Selecting an Analytical Laboratory --- Printable pdf
0.521  Diagnosing Saline and Sodic Soil Problems --- Printable pdf
0.546  Organic Materials as Nitrogen Fertilizers --- Printable pdf
0.550  Nitrogen Sources and Transformations --- Printable pdf


Fruit

2.800   Backyard Orchard: Apples and Pears [pest management] --- printable pdf
2.804   Backyard Orchard: Stone Fruits [pest management] - --- printable pdf


Plant Diseases

2.900   Necrotic Ring Spot in Turfgrass --- printable pdf
2.901   Ascochyta Leaf blight of Turf --- printable pdf
2.902   Powdery Mildew --- printable pdf
2.903   Non-Chemical Disease Control --- printable pdf
2.904   Juniper-Hawthorn Rust --- printable pdf
2.907   Fire Blight --- printable pdf
2.908   Fairy Ring in Turfgrass --- printable pdf
2.909   Leaf Spot and Melting Out Diseases --- printable pdf
2.910   Bacterial Wetwood --- printable pdf
2.920   Aspen and Poplar Leaf Spots --- printable pdf
2.925   Dwarf Mistletoe Management --- printable pdf
2.926   Healthy Roots and Healthy Trees --- Printable pdf
2.930   Sycamore Anthracnose --- printable pdf
2.931   Strawberry Diseases --- printable pdf
2.932   Environmental Disorders of Woody Plants --- Printable pdf
2.933   Dollar Spot Disease of Turfgrass --- printable pdf
2.937   Cytospora Canker --- printable pdf
2.939   Honeylocust Diseases – CSUE #2.939 --- printable pdf
2.945   Friendly Pesticides for Home Gardens --- printable pdf
2.946   Diseases of Roses in Colorado --- printable pdf
2.947   Greenhouse Plant Viruses (TSWV-INSV) --- printable pdf
2.948   Pinon Pine Insects and Diseases --- printable pdf
2.949   Recognizing Tomato Problems --- Printable pdf


Weed Control

3.100  Broadleaf Weed Control in Lawns --- Printable pdf
3.101  Grassy Weed Control in Lawn --- Printable pdf
4.702  Drip Irrigation for Home Garden --- Printable pdf


Entomology

5.501  Insect Pests of Home-Stored Food --- Printable pdf
5.502  Flies in the Home --- Printable pdf
5.504  Attracting Butterflies to the Garden --- Printable pdf
5.505  Clover and Other Mites of Turfgrass --- Printable pdf
5.506  Dutch Elm Disease --- Printable pdf
5.507  Spider Mites – CSUE #5.507 --- Printable pdf
5.509  Sod Webworms and Cutworms --- Printable pdf
5.510  Mantids of Colorado --- Printable pdf
5.511  Aphids on Shade Trees and Ornamentals --- Printable pdf
5.512  Spiders in the Home --- Printable pdf
5.513  Oyster Shell Scale --- Printable pdf
5.514  Scale Insects Affecting Conifers --- Printable pdf
5.515  Slugs --- Printable pdf
5.516  Billbugs and White Grubs --- Printable pdf
5.517  Hornworms and Hummingbird Moths --- Printable pdf
5.518  Ants in the Home --- Printable pdf
5.519  Apple and Pear Insects --- Printable pdf
5.520  Stone Fruit Insects: Control in Home Planting --- Printable pdf
5.521  Elm Leaf Beetles --- Printable pdf
5.522  Box Elder Bugs --- Printable pdf
5.525  Nuisance Wasps and Bees– CSUE #5.525 --- Printable pdf
5.526  Mosquito Management --- Printable pdf
5.528  Mountain Pine Beetle and Bark Beetles --- Printable pdf
5.529  Pine Tip Moths --- Printable pdf
5.530  Shade Tree Borers --- Printable pdf
5.532  Termites --- Printable pdf
5.533  European Earwigs --- Printable pdf
5.534  Cooley Spruce Galls --- Printable pdf
5.536  Grasshopper Control in Yards and Gardens --- Printable pdf
5.539  Gypsy Moth --- Printable pdf
5.540  Potato or Tomato Psyllids --- Printable pdf
5.542  Douglas-Fir Tussock Moths --- Printable pdf
5.543  Western Spruce Budworms --- Printable pdf
5.544  Ponderosa Pine Needle Miners --- Printable pdf
5.546  Honeysuckle Witches Broom Aphid --- Printable pdf
5.547  Soaps and Detergents --- Printable pdf
5.548  Leafmining Insects --- Printable pdf
5.549  Carpet Beetles – CSUE #5.549 --- Printable pdf
5.550  Beneficial Insects and Other Arthropods --- Printable pdf
5.551  Root Weevils --- Printable pdf
5.552  Millipedes, Centipedes and Sowbugs --- Printable pdf
5.553  Cockroaches --- Printable pdf
5.554  Carpenter Ants --- Printable pdf
5.556  Bacillus thuringiensis --- Printable pdf
5.557  Insect and Mite Galls of Woody Plants --- Printable pdf
5.558  IPS Beetles --- Printable pdf
5.560  Pear Slug --- Printable pdf
5.563  Firewood and House Log Insects in Colorado --- Printable pdf
5.566  Peach Tree Borer --- Printable pdf
5.567  Ponderosa Pine Budworm --- Printable pdf
5.569  Horticultural Oils --- Printable pdf
5.571  Insect and Mite Pests of Honeylocust --- Printable pdf
5.572  Moths in the Home --- Printable pdf
5.573  Insect Parasitic Nematodes for Insect Control --- Printable pdf
5.574  Bat Bugs and Bed Bugs --- Printable pdf
5.576  Leafcutter Bees --- Printable pdf
5.579  Poplar Twig-Gall Fly --- Printable pdf
5.580  Snailcase Bagworm --- Printable pdf
5.581  Tobacco (Geranium) Budworm --- Printable pdf
5.582  Biting Flies --- Printable pdf
5.583  Tent-Making Caterpillars --- Printable pdf
5.586  Brown-Headed Ash Sawfly --- Printable pdf
5.587  Greenhouse Whitefly --- Printable pdf
5.588  Conifer Seed Bugs --- Printable pdf
5.589  Sunspiders (Windscorpions) --- Printable pdf
5.590  Cicadas --- Printable pdf
5.591  Zimmerman Pine Moths --- Printable pdf
5.592  Flea Beetles --- Printable pdf
5.593  Colorado Tick's and Tick-Borne Diseases --- Printable pdf
5.594  Lady Beetles --- Printable pdf
5.595  Managing Houseplant Pests -- CSUE #5.595 --- Printable pdf
5.597  Miller Moths --- Printable pdf
5.598  Indian Meal Moths --- Printable pdf
5.599  Clothes Moths: Identification and Control in the Home --- Printable pdf
5.600  Fleas and Plague --- Printable pdf


Wildfire

6.302   Creating Wildfire Defensible Zones --- Printable pdf
6.303   Fire-Resistant Landscaping --- Printable pdf
6.304   Forest Home Fire Safety --- Printable pdf
6.305   Firewise Plant Materials --- Printable pdf
6.306   Grass Seed Mixes to Reduce Wildfire Hazard --- Printable pdf
6.307   Vegetative Recovery After Wildfire --- Printable pdf
6.308   Soil Erosion Control After Wildfire --- Printable pdf
6.309   Insects and Diseases Associated with Forest Fires --- Printable pdf


Wildlife

6.500  Coping with Skunks --- Printable pdf
6.501  Coping with Snakes --- Printable pdf
6.505  Managing Wyoming Ground Squirrels --- Printable pdf
6.506  Managing Prairie Dogs --- Printable pdf
6.507  Managing Voles in Colorado --- Printable pdf
6.515  Managing Pocket Gophers --- Printable pdf
6.516  Woodpeckers --- Printable pdf
6.520  Preventing Deer Damage --- Printable pdf

Natural Resources

6.702  Graywater Reuse and Rainwater Harvesting --- Printable pdf


Gardening

7.000  Strawberries for the home garden --- Printable pdf
7.001  Raspberries for the home garden --- Printable pdf
7.002  Pollination of Tree Fruits --- Printable pdf
7.003  Training and Pruning Fruit Trees --- Printable pdf
7.005  Currants, gooseberries and jostaberries --- Printable pdf
7.007  Eliminate Grass Clipping Collection --- Printable pdf
7.199  Watering Established Lawns --- Printable pdf


Gardening

7.202  Lawn Care --- Printable pdf
7.208  Hedges --- Printable pdf
7.211  Fall and Winter Watering --- Printable pdf
7.212  Composting Yard Waste --- Printable pdf
7.214  Mulches for Home Grounds --- Printable pdf
7.221  Storing of Vegetable and Flower Seeds --- Printable pdf
7.225  Landscaping for Energy Conservation --- Printable pdf
7.227  Growing Turf on Salt-Affected Sites --- Printable pdf
7.228  Xeriscaping: Creative Landscaping --- Printable pdf
7.229  Xeriscaping: Trees and Shrubs --- Printable pdf
7.230  Xeriscaping: Ground Cover Plants --- Printable pdf
7.231  Xeriscaping: Garden Flowers --- Printable pdf
7.232  Ornamental Grasses --- Printable pdf
7.233  Wildflowers in Colorado --- Printable pdf
7.234  Xeriscaping: Retrofit Your Yard --- Printable pdf

7.235  Choosing A Soil Amendment --- Printable pdf
7.236  Landscaping on Expansive Soils --- Printable pdf
7.237  Edible Flowers --- Printable pdf
7.238  Container Gardens --- Printable pdf

7.239  Watering – Operating and Maintaining a Home Irrigation System --- Printable pdf
7.240  Home Landscape Watering During Drought --- Printable pdf
7.241  Renovating the Home Lawn --- Printable pdf
7.243  Sustainable Landscapes -- Printable pdf


Gardening

7.400  Ground Cover Plants --- Printable pdf
7.401  Rock Garden Plants --- Printable pdf
7.402  Perennial Gardening --- Printable pdf
7.403  Evergreen Trees --- Printable pdf
7.404  Selecting and Planting Roses --- Printable pdf
7.405  Herbaceous Perennials --- Printable pdf
7.406  Flowers for Mountain Communities --- Printable pdf
7.409  Growing Plants from Seed --- Printable pdf
7.410 Fall-Planted Bulbs and Corms --- Printable pdf
7.411  Spring-Planted Bulbs, Corms and Roots --- Printable pdf
7.412  Poinsettias Home Care and Culture --- Printable pdf
7.413  Ground Cover Plants for Mountain Communities --- Printable pdf
7.414  Evergreen Shrubs --- Printable pdf
7.415  Deciduous Shrubs --- Printable pdf
7.416  Rose Culture --- Printable pdf
7.418  Small Deciduous Trees for Privacy and Color --- Printable pdf
7.419  Large Deciduous Trees for Street and Shade --- Printable pdf
7.420  Protecting Trees During Construction --- Printable pdf
7.421  Native Trees for Colorado Landscapes --- Printable pdf
7.422  Native Shrubs for Colorado Landscapes --- Printable pdf
7.423  Trees and Shrubs for Mountain Areas -- Printable pdf


Vegetables

7.601  Storage of Home-Grown Vegetables --- Printable pdf
7.602  Saving Seeds --- Printable pdf
7.604  Vegetable Root Crops --- Printable pdf
7.607  Sweet Corn for the Home Garden --- Printable pdf
7.608  Leafy Vegetable Crops for the Home Garden --- Printable pdf
7.609  Cucumbers, Pumpkins, Squash, and Melons --- Printable pdf
7.610  Potatoes for the Home Garden --- Printable pdf
7.614  Onions and Related Species for Home Gardens --- Printable pdf
7.616  Peppers and Eggplant --- Printable pdf

7.700  Horticulture Classification --- printable pdf
7.701  Taxonomy --- printable pdf
7.702  Plant Structures: Cells, Tissues, and Structures --- printable pdf
7.703  Plant Structures: Roots --- printable pdf


Foods

9.335  Growing, Preserving and Using Herbs – CSUE #9.335 --- Printable pdf
9.369  Preventing E. coli From Garden to Plate --- Printable pdf
9.952  Water Conservation In and Around the Home --- Printable pdf


XCM  Misc. Fact Sheets

XCM-211  Homeowner's Guide to Alternative Pest Management for the Lawn and Garden --- printable pdf XCM-220  Homeowner's Guide to Pesticides Use Around the Home --- printable pdf
XCM-221  Homeowner's Guide to Alternative Pest Management for the Lawn and Garden --- Printable pdf
XCM-222  Homeowner's Guide to Fertilizing Your Lawn and Garden --- Printable pdf
XCM-223  Homeowner's Guide to Protecting Water Quality and the Environment --- printable pdf

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Updated Monday September 24 2007, David Whiting