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Blog - The Organic Forecast Show Menu Home Blog Contact Seasons Spring Summer Fall Winter September 30, 2018 A New Buzz Around Bees In specimen you happened to miss the recent radio program “The History and Necessity of Bees” – that aired on KUER Radio West on September 26, 2018 – I want to make sure you know well-nigh this EXCELLENT discussion on honey bees, native bees and bee habitat.  Take time to listen to the archived podcast… Read increasingly September 23, 2018 Summer 2018 Is Coming to an End! Summer months are often FULL of garden surprises, pests, disease, drought, hail and more!  This summer was no exception – we really saw some crazy stuff this growing season, but savvy gardeners will tell you it is important to take time to reflect on past season problems and learn how to stave repeating the same… Read increasingly September 16, 2018 The Skinny on Soil Testing Here at the Salt Lake County Extension office, we get oodles of questions on soil testing – how to, why do, and um what am I supposed to decipher from these results!  I like to stress that soil testing does not requite you all the answers, but is important baseline information for properly managing soils… Read increasingly September 15, 2018 Fall Time Turn Down Class Turning Over The Garden Basic Turfgrass Care Topsoil Quality Guidelines Winding Down for Winter Backyard Composting in Utah The Gardeners Almanac         Read increasingly September 9, 2018 Your Guide to Garden Harvest! Hello all, we are in the midst of garden harvest season and getting lots of questions on how to harvest and store your garden bounty.  Shawn Olsen, Dan Drost and Teresa Hunsaker put together an spanking-new fact sheet on the harvest and storage of wontedly grown vegetables and fruits.  You can wangle it here– and don’t… Read increasingly September 2, 2018 A Labor of Love! Love is in the air!  This holiday weekend we gloat giving when to our seniors while salubrious insects requite when to us in our garden – curious, trammels out this recent video from KUED’s The Modern Gardener!  Have a fruitful and unscratched holiday weekend! Companion Planting with USU Extension Read increasingly August 26, 2018 What’s Troubling My Tomatoes? Many gardeners have waited all summer to eat fresh tomatoes. Sometimes though, as the first tomatoes mature, they may be deformed, croaky or have other problems. In this case, the weather, not microorganisms, is usually to blame. Four conditions are expressly common. These include sunscald, cat-facing, cracking and floweret end rot. Consider this information. Sunscald appears… Read increasingly August 19, 2018 Veggies Get Sunburned Too! Sunburn injury on peppers and tomatoes is very worldwide this time of year so I thought it might be timely to highlight a unconfined USU Extension Fact sheet – Using Shade for Fruit and Vegetable Production. Stay tomfool out there! Read increasingly August 10, 2018 Meet Me at the Fair! Come see our Master Gardeners at the 2018 Salt Lake County Fair Family FarmFest August 9, 10 and 11 at the Salt Lake County Equestrian Park and Fairgrounds in South Jordan, Utah.  For increasingly details and the daily schedule click here.Moreovercome and see us at the 2018 Party in the Park hosted by Jordan… Read increasingly August 5, 2018 Butterfly Wings Among Other Things Butterflies are so unbelievably tomfool – and quite complicated!  For example, did you know butterfly wings are made up of hundreds of tiny ‘scales’?  It turns out genes are responsible for forming the wing patterns of butterflies. Trammelsout this recent article on the Utah Pests website well-nigh recent research that has helped unlock this miraculous mystery. Read increasingly July 29, 2018 Don’t Let Pests Take the ‘Perfect’ Out of Tree Fruit Summer’s bounty is in full season which ways garden pests are out scavenging for their favorite ‘garden buffet’ treats! Trammelsout the most recent Utah Pests Advisory for updated information on codling moth, San Jose scale, peach twig borer, western cherry fruit fly and more!  Peruse the end of the post linked whilom to trammels out two… Read increasingly July 22, 2018 Banking on Beetles Wanna tenancy slugs and snails naturally?  One idea is to build a protrude bank!  According to Gwendolyn Ellen from Oregon State University Integrated Plant Protection Center, “beetle banks are permanent habitat for predacious ground beetles” and predacious ground beetles, with their giant mandibles, prey on large soft bodied insect pests like slugs and snails.  Raised… Read increasingly July 15, 2018 Salty Soils – Saline Secrets Soil salinity secrets are once then dissolved thanks to Dr. Grant Cardon, our USU Extension Soil Specialist.  Grant digs deep into plant tolerances of soil salinity in his most recent edition of Dirt Diggers Digest.  Here is his post and stay hydrated out there – it’s hot! Plant Tolerance to Soil Salinity In my December… Read increasingly July 8, 2018 Secrets of Soil Solarization If you haven’t noticed, it’s hot outside – like really hot – but it’s wondrous how the weeds still protract to grow!  Soil solarization is sometimes considered the ‘holy grail’ of organic weed tenancy since it does not require herbicides to work and considering it is currently so hot outside, it’s the perfect time of… Read increasingly 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 Older posts Search Archives Archives Select Month September 2018  (6) August 2018  (4) July 2018  (5) June 2018  (4) May 2018  (4) April 2018  (7) March 2018  (5) February 2018  (4) January 2018  (4) December 2017  (5) November 2017  (4) October 2017  (5) September 2017  (4) August 2017  (4) July 2017  (5) June 2017  (4) May 2017  (4) April 2017  (5) March 2017  (4) February 2017  (4) January 2017  (5) December 2016  (4) November 2016  (4) October 2016  (5) September 2016  (4) August 2016  (4) July 2016  (4) June 2016  (4) May 2016  (5) April 2016  (4) March 2016  (5) February 2016  (4) January 2016  (5) December 2015  (4) November 2015  (5) October 2015  (3) September 2015  (4) August 2015  (6) July 2015  (4) June 2015  (4) May 2015  (5) April 2015  (7) March 2015  (5) February 2015  (5) January 2015  (5) November 2014  (1) October 2014  (1) September 2014  (4) August 2014  (1) July 2014  (7) June 2014  (3) May 2014  (1) April 2014  (2) March 2014  (4) January 2014  (3) September 2013  (1) August 2013  (6) July 2013  (6) June 2013  (3) February 2013  (1) January 2013  (1) September 2012  (2) June 2012  (2) May 2012  (1) April 2012  (1) March 2012  (1) February 2012  (1) January 2012  (1) 2015 October 2018 M T W T F S S « Sep     1234567 891011121314 15161718192021 22232425262728 293031   Utah State Unveristy is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution Snap theme by The Theme Foundry error: Content is protected !!