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...
Cover Crops for Sustainability
By Bonnie Kirn Donahue
Extension Master Gardener
University of VermontÂ
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.
Magnolia Scale
By Ann Hazelrigg
Extension Plant Pathologist
University of Vermont  Â
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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