Cheating the Season

By Deborah J. Benoit
Extension Master Gardener
University of Vermont

We’ve probably all run out to the garden on a fall evening as the temperature drops and a frost warning is issued. We throw a sheet over our fruit-covered tomato plants to eek just a little more growing time from the rapidly evaporating season. Ghostly visions of sheet-covered tomato plants aside, there...

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Cover Crops for Sustainability

By Bonnie Kirn Donahue
Extension Master Gardener
University of Vermont 

Rather than leaving a field or patch of soil open over the winter, consider cover crops. A cover crop is basically a temporary seeding of an area that would otherwise have exposed soil. The crop is a placeholder for future crops that will be grown there.

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Magnolia Scale

By Ann Hazelrigg
Extension Plant Pathologist
University of Vermont    

Magnolia scale (Neolecanium cornuparvum) is a soft scale insect that attacks only magnolia trees including the popular star magnolia (Magnolia stellata) and saucer magnolia (Magnolia x soulangiana).

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