
Research-based garden help
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Throughout this site there are links to documents of various file types. Please contact our Statewide Program Leader if you require this information in a different format.
Resources
Pests and Problems:
Hortsense and Pestsense are WSU Extension websites dedicated to helping you diagnose problems you are having in your landscape. Sorted both by plant type (e.g., Ornamentals, Fruits & Lawn) as well as by problem category (e.g., Weeds, Disease & Insect).
Navigate to Hortsense or Pestsense.
Navigating to your issue is easy:
- Select your category (vegetables the Cucumbers in this example):
- Once you have selected your plant, Hortsense gives you common diseases and pest problems associated with that plant.
Growing Guides & Garden Building Projects:
Gardening in Washington State is a website that helps you navigate the hundreds of free Publications that WSU Extension maintains on all things gardening.
Navigate to Gardening in Washington State.
Finding your area of interest is easy:
- You can use either the left navigation bar or scroll over the home page graphic.
- Then select your specific crop of interest. Cucumbers in this example:
- This takes you to the WSU publication warehouse. In virtually all cases, you will be selecting a free publication, when this is the case, you do not have to go through the check-out process, simply download your publication:
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