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Visit our Grow It Eat It web site to learn how to start a vegetable garden or to find a beginning gardening class in your neighborhood!
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We're counting food gardens - add yours to our map! Entries will be eligible to win a beautiful custom-made cedar University of Maryland Salad Box kit - complete with growing media and heirloom lettuce seeds.
   

Do you love the idea of eating home-grown salads from April through November? Here are instructions for building a Salad Table™ or Salad Box™ As seen on The Martha Stewart Show!

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June Plant Diseases

Monthly diseases is a new HGIC feature highlighting the common landscape diseases that typically occur during a particular month. Click on an image below to go to the new Plant Disease Page.

anthracnose on maple
anthracnose on sedum
cedar apple rust on juniper
virus symptom on flowering cherry
rose rosette
fireblight

Invasive Species Updates

Gypsy moth caterpillar
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