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Garden Help Desk: The benefits of thinning fruit on trees

Now that we’re well into spring, it’s time to assess the fruit set on apples, pears, peaches and nectarines. It’s common for fruit trees to begin the season with more flowers and fruits than a home orchardist will need for a good harvest at the end of the season. Fruit set can be ...

EveryDay Strong: 5 books that can help kids be more confident, resilient

Storytime with Mom, Dad or another caring adult is a great way to strengthen the relationship with the child in your life. The emotional closeness of snuggling up and sharing an adventure together is wonderful. You can also use stories to have conversations about feeling safe, connected or ...

Attention, gardeners: Utah’s free plant program gives bees a boost

Utahns have one more week to apply to receive free native plants before a deadline for the state’s pollinator habitat program flies by. It’s not just individual gardeners that are eligible, but also nonprofits, government agencies, businesses, hospitals, and Native American tribes, among ...

Garden Help Desk: Timely gardening tips for April

Although we have been experiencing springlike temperatures for weeks and weeks, spring is now actually here. Perhaps your fruit trees and spring bulbs are already blooming and your lawn is ready to be mowed for the first time. This surreal weather has Mother Nature accelerating the emergence ...

Spruce things up: 10 tips to help you make the most of spring cleaning

Although the weather in Utah has felt like spring for much of the last few months, last week it became official with the vernal equinox on March 20. The changing of the seasons brings with it an annual tradition that is both beloved and dreaded: spring cleaning. According to a National ...

Utah Valley Living: Places to go, things to do (March 28-April 5)

Here is a look at many of the events going on in Utah Valley and beyond in the next week: CENTRAL Provo March 28 Twelfth Night, BYU West Campus, 7:30 p.m. (onstage.byu.edu) Theatre Ballet Studio Company: Emerging Works Series, Dance Performance Theatre, 7:30 p.m. ...

Garden Help Desk: Preventing cats from using your garden as their litter box

When fall temperatures drop and the ground begins to freeze, many gardeners encounter a frustrating paradox: while the rest of the landscape turns rock-hard, the well-amended, loamy soil in raised grow boxes remains soft and inviting. For neighborhood cats, these boxes become the premier ...

Garden Help Desk: Radishes – one of the easiest vegetables to grow

We often see radishes in the grocery store and assume they are only meant for green salads. For years, that was my assumption as well. It was not until a doctor placed me on a diet and suggested using radishes as a substitute for potatoes that I discovered how versatile they can be. As it ...

Garden Help Desk: Best practices for applying pre-emergent products to lawns

As spring approaches, many homeowners begin asking when they should apply pre-emergent products — often called weed preventers or crabgrass preventers — to their lawns. Some lawn care companies have already started making applications for their customers. Before deciding whether it’s ...

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