Home and Garden
- Adaptive Gardening: Gardening with Limitations
- Backyard Livestock
- Flowers
- Forage Crops
- General Gardening
- General Pest Control
- Home Lawns
- Home Water Supply
- Houseplants
- Indoor and Yard Pests/Human Health
- Insect Pests of Plants
- Landscape Design
- Landscape Topics
- Nuisance Wildlife
- Plant Diseases
- Small Fruit
- Tree Fruit
- Trees and Shrubs
- Vegetables and Herbs
- Weeds
- Wood Heat
Adaptive Gardening: Gardening with Limitations
Tools for Easier Gardening
Ergonomic tools were originally designed for senior citizens and those with physical ailments, both young and old.
Top of pageBackyard Livestock
History of Chicken Flocks in the US
Information on raising backyard poultry. Includes topics such as housing and management practices, care of eggs, nutrition requirements, disease and parasite control, chicken terms and additional sources of information.
Small flock Poultry management; Cannibalism
Fact sheet on prevention and control of cannibalism in small poultry flocks.
Small Flock Poultry Management; Disease
An introduction to Poultry Disease and discussion of causes of diseases
Small Flock Poultry Management; External Parasites
Identification and Management of common External Parasites of Small Poultry Flocks.
Small Flock Poultry Management; Marek's Disease
Fact sheet on Marek's Disease a common disease of small poultry flocks.
Small Flock Poultry Management; Newcastle Disease
Fact Sheet on the causes and prevention of Newcastle disease of poultry.
Small Flock Poultry Management; Pullorum Disease and Fowl Typhoid
Fact Sheet on Pullorum and Fowl Typhoid, two diseases of importance to the small flock.
Small Flock Poultry Management;Bumblefoot
Bumblefoot disorder of poultry - symptoms, causes and treatment.
Small Flock Poultry ManagementSeries; Brooding Chicks
Fact Sheet for getting day-old chicks off to a good start.
Flowers
African Violets Can Bloom All Year Long
African Violets can bloom all year long. They make great houseplants, with their cheerful flowers brightening up a windowsill even in the dead of winter.
FALL-BLOOMING PERENNIALS
By autumn, many of the spring- and summer-blooming perennials have faded, leaving the garden bleak and colorless. But some perennials, such as asters and goldenrod, will provide vivid color until the first killing frost or even later.
Plan Now for Indoor Spring Flowers
Forcing spring bulbs is easy to do and far less expensive than buying pots of
flowers from retail establishments that do the growing for you.
Poinsettias: Care and Reflowering
A brief history of poinsettias and instructions on the process of reflowering a plant year after year.
Forage Crops
General Gardening
Five Steps to Food Safe Fruit and Vegetable Home Gardening
This two-page fact sheet highlights five steps home gardeners can take to keep food safe.
Garden to Table: Five Steps to Food Safe Fruit and Vegetable Home Gardening
This longer booklet form of the two-page fact sheet - Five Steps to Food Safe Fruit and Vegetable Home Gardening - provides in-depth food safety information and fruit/vegetable storage charts for the home gardener.
Garden to Table: Storing Fresh Garden Produce
This two-page fact sheet/chart for the home gardener provides information on fruit and vegetable storage methods, times, and tips.
General Pest Control
Home Lawns
Fall is a Great Time to Lime
Lime is applied directly to the soil of your lawn to increase the soil pH. Soil pH, a
measure of the soil’s acidity or alkalinity, can directly influence the vigor and quality of
your home lawn.
Home Water Supply
Houseplants
Poinsettias: Care and Reflowering
A brief history of poinsettias and instructions on the process of reflowering a plant year after year.
Indoor and Yard Pests/Human Health
Biology and Management of Ticks in New Hampshire
This publication will help you learn what ticks look like, how they
live, and how to protect yourself from tick-borne disease.
live, and how to protect yourself from tick-borne disease.
Black Flies
New Hampshire is home to approximately 40 species of black flies. Of these species, only 4 or 5 are considered to be significant human biters or annoying. In some cases, black flies may not bite but merely annoy as they swarm about the head or body. Only the females bite and fortunately most species feed on birds or other animals.
Carpenter Ants
Carpenter ants, along with termites, are the most troublesome structural pest in New Hampshire. Four species live in the state, three entirely black, the fourth black with a red-brown midsection.
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Updated in 2009, a comprehensive resource on Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
Insect Repellents
Insect repellents or "bite-preventing substances" for mosquitoes, gnats, no-see-ums and other insects.
Kitchen Pests
Our kitchens contain an array of stored food items that serve as welcome habitats for many insect pests. These include a variety of beetles and moths that are capable of infesting and destroying a variety of dried foods.
Insect Pests of Plants
Aphids
Aphids, or plant lice, feed on most vegetable crops, many houseplants and many ornamentals grown in New Hampshire, as well as numerous weeds and wild plants. With their awesome reproductive abilities aphids can build up in large numbers in a very short period of time.
Colorado Potato Beetle
The Colorado Potato Beetle (CPB) became a pest when settlers brought potatoes into the Rocky Mountain area, the native habitat of this beetle. The beetle preferred the potato to its host weed and has spread to become a serious pest throughout the US and Eastern Canada.The CPB feeds on the leaves and terminal growth of nightshade-family plants, such as potato, tomato, and eggplant. The potato, however, is its preferred plant. The above-ground destruction of potato plants can cause severe reduction in tuber size and overall yield.
Cutworms
Cutworms are the larval form of dozens of different species of small brown or tan, banded moths. Depending on the species, cutworms damage plants in several ways.
European Corn Borer
The European corn borer (ECB, family Pyralidae, order Lepidoptera) arrived in North America during the early 1900s, probably in broom corn imported from Hungary and Italy for the manufacture of brooms.
Flea Beetles
The name flea beetle describes many species of small beetles that chew tiny shot-holes in plant foliage and jump around like fleas when disturbed. Although some species feed on a wide range of plants, most FB species attack a single species or family of related plants.
Imported Cabbageworm
The imported cabbageworm (ICW), the larval form of the delicate white butterflies that flutter around the summer garden, is a serious pest of cabbage-family crops.
Slugs
Slugs are slimy, soft-bodied, grayish, orange or brownish mottled mollusks - snails without shells. Slugs vary in length up to 4 inches and leave a slimy silver-colored trail wherever they travel. They can become serious pests in and around the home, garden, and greenhouse.
Striped Cucumber Beetle
The Striped Cucumber Beetle (CB), Acalymma vittata (Fab.), is one of the most devastating pests of cucurbits (cucumbers, summer and winter squashes, all types of melons and pumpkins) east of the Rocky Mountains. Both adults and larvae feed on cucurbit crops. This insect is also responsible for the spread of plant diseases such as bacterial wilt and cucumber mosaic.
Tarnished Plant Bug
Among the several species of plant bugs that invade New Hampshire fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops, the one that does the most damage is the tarnished plant bug (TPB), Lygus lineolaris.
Three-Lined Potato Beetle
Three-lined potato beetles are found on plants in the family Solanaceae, including potato, tomato and relatives.
Landscape Design
Landscape Topics
A Low-Tech Water Garden
Picture yourself sitting in the shade on a hot summer day, lazily sipping iced tea,
listening to the gentle trickle of water into a lovely pond of water lilies—in your very own
garden. Impossible, you say. Just think of all those pumps, filters, liners, running
electricity to the pond, digging the pond, maintaining the pond! Not so, I say. With the
basic equipment of a pool liner and an outside water faucet you can have exactly what I
have described at modest expense.
Looking for Burning Bush?
Burning Bush is prohibited from sale and planting in NH. Consider using these alternatives.
Looking for Japanese Barberry?
Japanese Barberry is prohibited from sale or planting in NH. Consider using these alternatives.
Looking for Norway Maple?
Norway Maple is prohibited from sale or planting in NH. Consider using these alternatives.
Nuisance Wildlife
Pesky Winter Critters
The culprits of winter damage are generally pine voles, meadow voles, and moles.
Plant Diseases
Some Common Tomato Problems
You can reduce or eliminate many problems by improving the plant growing
environment and your gardening skills. The following list of physiological disorders represent some of the more common tomato problems.
environment and your gardening skills. The following list of physiological disorders represent some of the more common tomato problems.
Small Fruit
Raspberry and Blackberry Varieties for NH
Recommended raspberry & blackberry varieties for New Hampshire growing.
Small Fruit Cultivars for Home Gardens in Coös County
List of recommended small fruit cultivation in coos country.
Small Fruit Cultivars for New Hampshire Gardens
A guide to strawberries, blueberries, brambles and grape varieties for NH. Includes a list of nurseries in NH.
The NH Fruit and Vegetable Harvest Season
A chart that shows the availability of locally grown fruits and vegetables based on harvest dates.
Tree Fruit
The NH Fruit and Vegetable Harvest Season
A chart that shows the availability of locally grown fruits and vegetables based on harvest dates.
Trees and Shrubs
Propagating Trees and Shrubs
Propagating from cuttings is a relatively simple way to make new plants at virtually no cost. It’s also a great way to replicate sentimental favorites. Plant pieces are clipped from the parent plant and rooted to form new plants; these are called rooted cuttings. If all goes well, you should be able to produce tiny,new plants in 6 to 8 weeks.
Vegetables and Herbs
Growing Sweet Potatoes in New Hampshire
A guide to growth requirements, mulching, pests, harvesting, varieties and more.
Some Common Tomato Problems
You can reduce or eliminate many problems by improving the plant growing
environment and your gardening skills. The following list of physiological disorders represent some of the more common tomato problems.
environment and your gardening skills. The following list of physiological disorders represent some of the more common tomato problems.
The NH Fruit and Vegetable Harvest Season
A chart that shows the availability of locally grown fruits and vegetables based on harvest dates.
Weeds
Wood Heat
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