Garden Care

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Gardening Smart!
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Smart Gardening Using Integrated Pest Management
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Gardening Smart!

• Healthy, productive plants use their natural
  defense systems to resist environmental stresses
• How to use IPM for your home gardens from
  ornamentals to vegetables and everything in
  between
• Open questions

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Todays Smart Gardener

• The sensible approach to pest control is to
  create a natural balance of organisms in your
  yard or garden. In a diverse ecosystem, pest
  populations are naturally regulated. Development
  of this balance at your home relies on using
  products that minimize harm to beneficial
  organisms.

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Plant Health

• OLD Commonly accepted to keep plants healthy was
  a broad application of chemicals to control pests
  prescription pest control.
• NOW Though pesticides play a role in plant
  health, they also have limitations. In addition
  to environmental and health concerns, pesticides
  may give only limited and temporary control if
  other control measures and practices are not
  integrated into the overall management or
  maintenance program.

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Practical Procedure for Plant Health

• Planning and Site Placement
• Site Preparation and Establishment
• Selecting Appropriate Plants
• Proper Cultural Practices

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Planning and Site Placement

• Sun
• Full Sun
• Part Shade
• Deep Shade
• Wind
• Direction, speed, occurrence
• Soil
• Sand, loam, clay
• pH
• Nutrient analysis

• Water
• Irrigated or not
• Hardscapes
• House, driveway, fences, etc.
• Maintenance
• Low, Medium, Magazine

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Site Preparation Establishment

• Correct drainage or erosion problems
• Raised beds
• Contour landscape
• Amending and preparing the soil
• Soil pH 6-7
• Organic matter
• Altering light conditions
• Removing tree limbs
• Thinning trees

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Selecting Appropriate Plants

• Grow the right plant in the right place!
• Know the requirements of a plant before you buy
  it
• Select disease resistant varieties or cultivars
• Select high quality plant material

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Proper Cultural Practices

• Planting Techniques
• Prepare the hole
• BB preparation
• Planting depth
• Water Management
• Maintenance
• Staking
• Moisture Management
• Establishment vs. Maintenance
• Fertility Management
• Fertilization Frequency
• Fertilization Timing

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Plant Health Care

• Healthy, productive plants can use their natural
  defense systems to resist environmental stresses.

• As a result, they need less chemical input for
  survival and productive long-term growth. An
  especially important concept is the plant health
  care attempts to manage plant health rather than
  just control pest problems.

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Integrated Pest Management IPM

• Uses multiple tools
• Uses chemicals when necessary
• Requires knowledge and planning
• Protect garden and landscape from pests
• Maintain beneficial organisms
• Effective pest management with least negative
  impact to the environment

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• According to NASA's Ames Research Center
• 50, 000 square miles of the continental US is
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• There is 3 times as much irrigated grass as
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• Turf is the most widespread irrigated crop.

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What general group of plants rarely, if ever,
need fertilizer, pesticides, irrigation or any
other special care after initial establishment?
NATIVE PLANTS !
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