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Garden Help Desk: Advice for Lehi gardeners worried about E. coli

We’ve received many questions about gardening with water that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria. I live in Lehi and there are warnings about E. coli in our irrigation water. I use irrigation water for my garden using a pvc pipe/drip water system and for my lawn using sprinklers. ...

Money Matters: Tips to set college students up for success

Did you know that in-state college and university students are spending a surprising average of $26,027 every academic year? Even more shocking is that if you choose to attend a private school, you can spend upward of $55,840. It’s no secret that students struggle to put in additional shifts ...

Garden Help Desk: How to work the kinks out of drip irrigation problems

I set up a drip line from my hose faucet for this small flower bed and am having a problem getting every emitter to work. I have ½-inch tubing as the mainline and ¼-inch tubing coming off of it with emitters for each flower and boxwood. There’s probably about 20 feet of mainline tubing ...