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How to Control Garden Diseases With Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Discover key IPM strategies that help you prevent and reduce disease problems in your garden.

Beginner’s Guide to Controlling Garden Weeds With Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Use these IPM fundamentals to identify garden weeds early and keep your plants healthy.

Garden Pest Control With Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Discover simple IPM strategies to identify, prevent and manage common garden insects.

Basics of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Your Garden

Get started with Integrated Pest Management and naturally protect your garden from pests, diseases and weeds with these four basic steps.

Fall Care Tips: Protect Trees & Shrubs from Winter Damage

From frost cracks to hungry critters, winter can be tough on landscape plants. Learn how to protect trees and shrubs for winter with these expert tips.

Beetles on Your Roses? You Might Be Dealing with Rose Curculios

Take quick action to keep these destructive pests from ruining your roses. Here's how to spot rose curculios and get rid of them.

Weed Watch: Henbit

Learn how to identify and control henbit, a common annual garden weed.

Deter Garden Pests with Thorny Rose Canes

Do you deal with critters tracking through your winter garden? Try this smart reader tip that utilizes rose canes to keep them out.

7 Ways to Get Rid of Garden Pests Without Pesticides

Try a few of these no-spray methods to deter bugs in the garden without resorting to harmful pesticides.

Weed Watch: Bristly Greenbrier

Do you recognize this common garden weed? Learn how to deal with bristly greenbrier here.

Weed Watch: Pokeweed

Learn how to identify and control pokeweed, a toxic native perennial.

Easy Way to Label Garden Sprayers

Are you looking for a better way to label your sprayers for garden pesticides and fertilizers? Try this smart tip from one of our readers!

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Weed Watch: Multiflora Rose

This invasive plant can form a dense thicket in a few years as its thorny, arching stems take root. Here's how to get multiflora rose under control.

Weed Watch: Common Burdock

Learn how to identify and control common burdock weed.

5 Ways to Get Rid of Weeds Without Pulling Them

Are you tired of hand-pulling weeds? Try these different techniques you may or may not have heard of for controlling weeds in your garden.

Spotted Lanternfly

The spotted lanternfly is an invasive insect species that is making its way across the U.S. Here is what you need to know and what to look for.

Scarlet Lily Leaf Beetle

Here’s what you need to know about the scarlet lily leaf beetle, a garden pest that’s making its way across the United States.

Companion Plantings That Really Work

Find out which companion plants work best together to create a vegetable garden that's productive and looks good, too.