New Jersey's marine ecosystems provide food, recreation, and employment for our residents. Managing these ecosystems to reinvigorate and sustain New Jersey's finfish and shellfish fisheries is a task ...

Fruit, vegetable, and field crop growers use copper-based fungicides as a protectant for many foliar diseases. The key with copper is that it must be applied before the presence of disease in order to ...

Many people will enter places they suspect may have bed bugs. Home health workers, maintenance and cleaning personnel, persons making deliveries and installations, travelers, first responders and ...

The NJAES Animal Care Program, in conjunction with several Department of Animal Sciences undergraduate classes, has developed direct-marketing programs of farm products. Student groups have been ...

Hydrangeas are great plants for the garden whose many benefits have been well recognized by gardeners over the centuries. They provide floral and occasionally foliar interest beginning in late spring ...

We all know that vegetables provide us with a multitude of important nutrients including fiber, vitamins and minerals, and health benefits such as protection against heart disease, high blood pressure ...

Cooking in the garden is a rewarding endeavor that brings the growing classroom full circle, from seed to plate. Growing vegetables with kids is a great first step to get them excited about vegetables ...

The following is a list of landscape plants rated according to their resistance to deer damage. The list was compiled with input from nursery and landscape professionals, Rutgers New Jersey ...

Silicon is a mineral present on earth in abundance. The element makes up about 28% of mineral soil by weight. Until recently, this ubiquitous element was not given much attention as a possible ...

Copperheads are one of just two venomous snake species found in New Jersey. The subspecies that occurs here is the northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen; Figure 1). They are only found ...

It's not the first time, nor will it be the last, that the dreaded crawly things appeared in my food. At first I thought it was a chance occurrence; then they appeared again. I had a problem. I had ...

Mulching trees, shrubs, and flower beds is a recommended landscape maintenance practice with many benefits, yet it can literally kill plants when applied improperly. Properly used, mulches provide ...