Jean Epiphan, Agriculture & Natural Resources Agent, Morris County Richard Buckley, Director, Plant Diagnostic Lab and Nematode Detection Service Timothy Waller, Agriculture and Natural Resources ...

Mulching trees, shrubs, and flower beds is a recommended landscape maintenance practice with many benefits, yet it can literally kill plants when applied improperly. Properly used, mulches provide ...

Hydrangeas are great plants for the garden whose many benefits have been well recognized by gardeners over the centuries. They provide floral and occasionally foliar interest beginning in late spring ...

Fur mites, or "walking dandruff," are nonburrowing skin parasites that affect mainly rabbits, but can also affect guinea pigs, hedgehogs, rodents, cats, dogs, etc. It is uncommon for humans to be a ...

Surveys can be an effective means to collect data needed for research and evaluation. However, the method is often misused and abused. The challenge is to design a ...

Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension's major health finance initiative is Small Steps to Health and Wealth™. This program is designed to motivate consumers ...

Hazelnuts are increasing in popularity worldwide for their use in many products including various confections, nut butters, and baked goods. Current commercial production relies primarily on cultivars ...

Steve Yergeau, County Agent II, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ocean and Atlantic counties Christine Raabe, Director, Ocean County Soil Conservation District Stephanie Murphy, Director, Rutgers ...

Coontail sometimes called "Hornwort" is a common, dark green, submerged perennial aquatic plant (Fig. 1). While it lacks true roots, Coontail may be loosely anchored to the bottom by specialized, ...

Silicon is a mineral present on earth in abundance. The element makes up about 28% of mineral soil by weight. Until recently, this ubiquitous element was not given much attention as a possible ...

This copy of the 2024/2025 Mid-Atlantic Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations replaces all previous editions of the Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations published individually for ...

There are at least 13,000 species of lichens living throughout the world. Lichen species are so numerous and diverse that there are individual exceptions to most general statements about them.