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Community gardening toolkit : a resource for planning, enhancing and sustaining your community gardening project (2009)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2009)
Yard and garden care : how it affects your health and environment : environmental risk assessment guide--work sheet 5 (2001)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2001)
The assessment table below will help you identify potential environmental risks related to your yard and garden maintenance practices. For each question, indicate your risk level in the right-hand column. Although some choices may not correspond...
Yard and garden care : how it affects your health and environment : environmental risk assessment guide--fact sheet 5 (2001)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2001)
This chapter examines the potential impact of yard and garden care on the environment and your health....
Aphids, scales and mites on home garden and landscape plants (2008)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2008)
Home propagation of houseplants (2002)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2002)
Plant pieces cut from a parent plant and rooted to form new plants are called 'cuttings.' They are a simple and inexpensive way to multiply houseplants as well as garden plants. These new plants have the same characteristics and genetic makeup...
Disease prevention in home vegetable gardens (2000)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2000)
An introduction to assessing the environmental safety of your home : environmental risk assessment guide--Introduction (2001)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2001)
Home-A-Syst is a confidential self-assessment program you can use to evaluate your home and property for pollution and health risks. In every home -- large or small, new or old, city or country -- there are potential pollution sources that can...
Spiders (2003)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2003)
Ticks (2002)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2002)
Power in the garden : exploring the lives of Missouri farm women and their vegetable gardens during the Great Depression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Today, when fresh, canned, and frozen vegetables are plentiful and taken for granted, the home vegetable garden is regarded as something between a hobby and a luxury. But in the Great Depression of the 1930s, the household vegetable garden, which...
The socioeconomic and cultural significance of food gardening in the Vladimir Region of Russia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Russia's family gardens currently produce over half of the country's agricultural output and represent a major sector of the country's economy, involving two thirds of the population. Despite this prominence, household gardening has been viewed as a...
Insect defoliators of Missouri trees : colony feeders (2008)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2008)
Boxelder bug (2008)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2008)
The boxelder bug, Boisea trivittata, lives outside but may invade homes as temperatures cool in the fall each year. This bug is distinctive in its appearance and coloration (Figure 1). Adult bugs are about 1/2-inch long and 1/6-inch wide...
Spring flowering bulbs : daffodils (2007)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2007)
Few garden plants give as much pleasure with as little effort as daffodils. They are one of the most vigorous and colorful flowers of spring. With good drainage they thrive in most soils, although they prefer a medium-heavy loam....
Vegetable gardening (2008)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2008)
Summer flowering bulbs : gladiolus (2005)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2005)
The gladiolus was once known as sword lily. Improved types were first developed from crosses of several species native to the Mediterranean area of Europe. Later discovery of African species led to crosses, which produced ...
The bagworm in Missouri (2008)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2008)
Sowbugs, pillbugs, millipedes and centipedes (2007)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2007)
Sowbugs and pillbugs are closely related to shrimp, crabs and lobsters. Although they may occasionally invade the home, they normally prefer moist areas outdoors at the soil surface in mulched flowerbeds, leaf litter, grass clippings and other...
Using service learning to teach sustainable agriculture in downtown Columbia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
urban agriculture infrastructure, examine the use of bike trailers, and compost food scrap “waste” from Rollins Dining. Students will design and implement a three-year garden experiment that tests different soil treatments and crop rotations. Data...
Flowering annuals : characteristics and culture (2005)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2005)
gardens, window boxes, hanging baskets, screens, temporary fillers and groundcovers....