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The ideas and principles behind good horticulture and landscape management.

Growing Degree Days: The Number That Tells You What Your Plants Are Actually Doing
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Growing Degree Days: The Number That Tells You What Your Plants Are Actually Doing

If you have ever wondered why your forsythia bloomed three weeks earlier than your neighbor's last year but only five days earlier this year, or why the extension service says to spray dormant oil...

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Heat and Growth Metrics: Reading the Season Through Temperature
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Heat and Growth Metrics: Reading the Season Through Temperature

If you track four numbers through the year, you can predict when your fruit trees will break dormancy, when the soil is warm enough to plant, whether your season is running ahead or behind, and how much solar energy your landscape is actually receiving.

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Water and Disease Metrics: Moisture, Evaporation, and What Makes Plants Sick
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Water and Disease Metrics: Moisture, Evaporation, and What Makes Plants Sick

Every fungal disease that hits your landscape needs the same thing you do: water. Understanding how water moves through your landscape, how much the atmosphere pulls back out, and when conditions favor the pathogens is the foundation of preventive plant health care.

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