Cooperative Extension Service Yard & Garden

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• Season Extension
  Extend growing seasons in New Mexico with high tunnel construction.

• Irrigation Management

• Drought Resources
  Publications to assist New Mexico's ranchers, farmers, and homeowners cope with our current extreme drought conditions.

• New Mexico Irrigation Center

• NM Master Composter Program

• Turf Program
  Turfgrass Research, Extension and Education

• Urban / Small Farm Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
  A website dedicated to providing information on managing pests in the urban and small farm environments of New Mexico.

• Chicken Tractor Video (Mobile Chicken Coop)

• School Gardening Resource

• Bernalillo County Extension Master Composter Program
  Provides basic composting classes for the general public and trains volunteers to teach these classes.

• Desert Blooms
  A collection of NMSU's Extension and research resources to help you learn how to use your resources to create the ideal garden or landscape environment perfectly suited to your lifestyle.

• Southwest Yard & Garden Columns
  Weekly column, written by Marisa Thompson, Extension horticulture specialist, that addresses garden and landscape questions.

• Melon Patch Columns
  Gardening columns

• Low Water-Use Landscape Plants for the Southwest

• Chile Pepper Institute
  Research based information for growers, processors and anyone wanting to learn about chile peppers.

• Plant Diagnostic Clinic
  Services include analysis of plant material for plant pathogens and environmental stresses as well as suggesting appropriate control measures when available.

• Soil, Water, and Agricultural Testing

• New Mexico Master Gardeners
  Master Gardeners assist their local Cooperative Extension Service office in providing accurate, research-based gardening information to county residents.

• Pesticide Safety Education Program

Publications

FREE! Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station publications.

Videos

• Yard & Garden playlist

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Featured Videos

• Choosing a Container
• What (or Not) to Grow in Containers
• Growing Mixture for Containers
• Garden Care

• Video 1
• Video 2
• Video 3

• A Tour of the 2020 NMSU Chile Pepper Institute Teaching Garden

• Building Healthy Soil at Pata Viva Farm

• Pallet Garden

• How to Take a Soil Sample

• Maintaining Grapevines after the Freeze (NMSU Viticulturist Specialist)

• Older Grapevine Maintenance after the Freeze (NMSU Viticulturist Specialist)

• NMSU Pallet Garden

• Pruning Grapevine after First Year

• Winter Damage with Some Growth at the Vineyard (NMSU Viticulturist Specialist)

Troublesome Weeds

Desert Blooms

SW Plant Selector App