MSU Landscape Alert newsletter

Michigan State University has posted the first issue for 2008 of MSU's Landscape Alert newsletter.  The Landscape Alert newsletter offers in-season turfgrass and landscape plant/tree care information for golf course management. The information is written by MSU faculty and Extension educators.

In this issue
Landscape and nursery
  Using horticultural oils on landscape plants
  Will we see a lot of winter injury this spring?

Turfgrass
  Turfgrass slow to thaw

Christmas trees and forestry
  Using traps to time white pine weevil emergence
  Optimizing your Christmas trees irrigation with soil tensiometers
  Gypsy moth certification for spruce, fir and Douglas-fir

Around the home
  Environmental trends in gardening
  Last fall's winter cutworm outbreak
  Blacklegged (aka deer) ticks steadily spreading in Lower Peninsula
  Viburnum leaf beetle, a new state record
  Long-lived wood boring beetle finally emerges
  Invasive Plants 201: A workshop for the thoughtful gardener
  Landscape design class in Waterford, MI

Other news
  U.S. agricultural labor statistics for winter 2008
  New pesticide applicator core manuals available

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Andrea Buchholz
Communications Specialist and Asst. Editor for MSU's CAT Alerts
Michigan State University Integrated Pest Management Program                                 
B18 National Food Safety & Toxicology Bldg
East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
                                                                                     
Phone: (517) 353-4703 
Fax: (517) 353-4995