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Garden Help Desk: Picking the best pumpkins and squash for your garden

It’s fall, ya’ll! And that means displaying pumpkins on your porch and eating butternut squash with abandon. Perhaps you are wondering - what is the difference between all of these different winter squash? Are they easy to grow? And what can I do with them once I have them? Do I even have ...

Family History stories: The impact of learning about family

Many readers from Northern Utah and Utah Valley responded to an invitation to share their favorite family history stories and experiences. Here is one of those stories: Looking back, I have realized that family history stories have had such a huge impact on me, and the way that I try to ...

Garden Help Desk: Cleaning and traps help solve pantry moth problems

For the last few weeks, I have found small (about 3/8 inch) moths in my kitchen, dining room, bathroom, even my bedroom. They have a dark color with lacey wings with fringed edges. I cleaned out every cupboard in kitchen, vacuumed all crevices and holes drilled for shelf placement and washed ...

Garden Help Desk: Successful pollination is key to corn production

I have a corn problem I hope the extension office can help me with. I grow corn every year and have always had great success. I plant four rows in an area about 50'x20’. The corn seed is sh2 variety. Last year, the ears were not fully developed. I thought it could have been grasshoppers ...