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Horticultural Documents, Newsletters, Studies and Reports
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Late Blight Mangement for Fall Winter and Spring
Backyard Veg Gardening Insect Pest Management Guide
Cooperative Extension's Entomologist David Simser has put together this booklet to aid the backyard gardener who would like to grow home vegetables, but is frustrated by the attack from seemingly dozens of insect pests.
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Water-Wise Landscapes
Information on how to create a water-wise landscape. This pdf has definitions on key terms, facts, and includes information on low-water plants which will work well on Cape Cod.
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Planting for Pollinators
Would you like to attract pollinating insects onto your land? Review this fact sheet for the plants, shrubs and trees that will do the best job.
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Right Plant, Right Place
Considering where to place a plant before you dig or plan is important. This guide will help you when siting your plants.
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Garden Clippings: Sample Newsletter
Sample from March 2009. Garden Clippings is a newsletter for gardeners in New England. It is published through the University of Massachusetts and distributed through the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension. If you read any monthly newsletter, it should be this horticultural gem!
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North American Plants for New England Gardens
There is a continuing trend in horticulture towards the increased use of plants of North American origin in the garden. This continent has a great diversity of plant life, much of which lends itself to residential and commercial landscapes. North America is divided into many ecologically distinct regions. Here in New England, we live in the eastern deciduous forest but within this region there are many different plant habitats such as meadows, marshes, mountains, uplands, and sand plains, among others. Many plants that are native to other areas of the country are adaptable to a much larger area than where they are growing wild.
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Native Alternatives & Invasive Species
What are Invasive Species? What are Native Alternatives? What will you plant instead of an invasive species? The documents enclosed are comprehensive and easy-to-understand. They will assist you with these questions and others that may arise.
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Cape Cod Dirty Dozen
Do you ever wonder how to categorize the nasties which reside in Barnstable County? Do you ever wonder what are their characteristics? The enclosed PDF details "Cape Cod's Dirty Dozen."
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Growing Hydrangeas on Cape Cod
Hydrangeas are among the most popular flowering shrubs for Cape Cod landscapes. This fact sheet will help you maintain a beautiful shrub.
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A Feasibility Study of Operating Wind Powered Greenhouses on Cape Cod
Cape Cod's small farms and greenhouses have the potential to increase the growing season and thus augment farm income through the production of winter crops. However, the current cost to light and heat greenhouses in the winter months makes winter crop production uneconomical. Cape Cod's plentiful wind resources make wind-powered greenhouse systems a plausible option for Barnstable County farms, but many questions remain about the technical and economic feasibility of these systems....
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OLIVER
OLIVER is MassGIS's OnLIne
data ViewER.
Written as a stand-alone Java application (and deployed via Java Web
Start) OLIVER allows you to browse, view and download any layer which
MassGIS has available for public distribution. This includes close to
200 datasets styled into almost 1,000 themes!
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Yellow Jackets
Found in meadows, forest edges, fruit orchards and urban areas, nesting
in stumps, fallen logs and cracks in the ground. Familiar pests at picnics
around ripe fruit, sweet juices and meat. Yellow jackets may scavenge
rotting fruit from trash, and reactions from scavengers' stings may
include tender tissue and inflammation below the skin.
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