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Home - The Organic Forecast Show Menu Home Blog Contact Seasons Spring Summer Fall Winter The USU Extension Organic Forecast blog is dedicated to Wasatch Front gardeners and farmers who desire to grow fresh, nutritious supplies with minimal or zero use of pesticides.  The Organic Forecast embraces the practice of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) which integrates knowledge and information with multiple approaches to write and prevent insect and disease problems.  Therefore, IPM is a sustainable tideway to managing garden pests and disease by combining biological, cultural, physical, and chemical tools in a way that minimizes economic, health, and environmental risks. As an urban farmer or metropolitan gardener extraordinaire, you need to be armed with necessary knowledge to efficiently and powerfully write garden problems.  Lucky for you, you have a research-based, non-biased neighbor; your local Utah State University Extension Office.  The USU Extension Service has provided growing translating to Utah residents for 104 years and counting!  Better yet, we only unhook the good stuff; if our information is not backed by research, we don’t teach it!  This tideway saves you time, money, and frustration.  Let our specialists guide you toward sensible and sustainable gardening practices in your garden. July 1, 2018 July 4th Weekend Explodes with Color! If you are staying in town this 4th of July weekend, there is veritably NO EXCUSE to not take some time to trammels out our wondrous state in peak bloom.  The mountains are bursting in verisimilitude – red, white and blue….and yellow and pink and purple and orange blooms EVERYWHERE!  It just goes to show… Read increasingly June 24, 2018 The Dirt on ‘Soil Health’ So we’ve all heard it a million times – ‘healthy soil’.  But what does good soil health really mean?  Once again, our Extension Soil Specialist, Dr. Grant Cardon has come to the rescue to help us make sense of the phrase ‘healthy soil’ – dig in to discover increasingly below.  For archived Dirt Diggers Digest… Read increasingly June 17, 2018 We’re Set to Deliver! 2018 Salt Lake Senior Center Farmers’ Market Line-up A lot’s been growing on lately – like our first deliveries of mustard greens, shallots, strawberries, radishes, turnips and more!  We have begun harvesting our tomfool season veggies and delivering them to Salt Lake senior centers. While I was too rented to remember to snap some photos of our bounty (you should have seen the… Read increasingly June 10, 2018 Don’t Bug Out on PestTenancythis Year! Alert, zestful – tree fruit owners!  Right now is a hair-trigger time for pest management for fruit trees.  See the recent tree fruit pest newsy from the Utah Pests Team for spray intervals and other pest management tips.  Click here to view the advisory. I moreover received an utterance today well-nigh an upcoming fruit and vegetable field… Read increasingly June 3, 2018 Aphid Devastation – Part 2! You don’t have to squint nonflexible to see guts and gore in your garden – if fact, I often tell gardeners to be glad you are as big as you are in your garden considering if you were tiny, many things would want to eat you!  Due to their zillions and tasty attributes, aphids are… Read increasingly May 27, 2018 Aphid Infestation – Part 1! Say the A-word and you are unseat to hear moans and groans from gardeners – yep, aphids – sigh!  Such a worldwide pest but maybe not as “pesty” to the insect world as you may have thought.  Aphids (moan) are like sugar drops to many insect predators.  Aphids (groan) are sap feeding insects that insert… Read increasingly May 20, 2018 Weeds to Watch! Ahhh Spring, birds chirping, lawn mowers running, blooms a bounty, pollen a’ flying, and weeds growing faster than specie can rise!  Many gardeners ask me, what is the key for constructive weed control?  Well, lots of herbicides help as does lots of digging and pulling, but the real key for most weed problems is to… Read increasingly May 13, 2018 Save the Date! Ahhhh!  What a wonderful stage – May 13th, 2018!  First off, to all our glorious gardening moms, Happy Mother’s Day!  To all our glorious gardening gurus (and gurus in training) happy stereotype last frost in Salt Lake City date!  And to all our fruit tree fans, the first generation coddling moth tenancy dates have been… Read increasingly May 6, 2018 Dig Into The Latest Edition of Dirt Diggers Digest! Have you overly wondered what it really ways when people say we have ‘alkaline soil’ here in Utah?  Well, wilt the validity on soil alkalinity by reading April’s edition of the Dirt Diggers Digest written by our one and only USU Soil Extension Specialist Dr. Grant Cardon! Why are my soils so alkaline?  Can I… Read increasingly Utah State Unveristy is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution Snap theme by The Theme Foundry error: Content is protected !!