Proper food serving procedures are essential in ensuring home food safety. The time from the end of cooking until you and your family eat a meal is very important. A foodborne illness incident may ...

Slugs and snails are pests of ornamental and vegetable plants in the home landscape. They both belong to the mollusk family and are related to shellfish, octopuses, and squids. Snails are well known ...

Michele Bakacs, Environmental and Resource Management Agent, Middlesex and Union Counties Michael Haberland, Environmental and Resource Management Agent, Burlington and Camden Counties Steve Yergeau, ...

A good mulch is a valuable addition to any vegetable garden. First, mulches conserve soil moisture, decreasing the amount of water you need to apply. By keeping soil moisture more uniform, ...

The most important factor in planning a vegetable garden is location. Choose a site with full sun, good drainage and no standing water, even after the heaviest rain. Keep the garden away from trees ...

The easiest way to start any vegetable garden is direct seeding—wait until the weather warms and plant the seeds directly in the garden. Unfortunately, direct seeding is not practical for some crops.

Diamondback moths are highly adaptable and have a remarkable capacity for developing resistance to insecticides. They also produce multiple generations a year, up to 15 in warmer climates and 3–4 in ...

The blueberry bush makes a wonderful choice for the home gardener as a flavorful food crop or as an ornamental landscape shrub. There are several important considerations in deciding which particular ...

This factsheet is intended for all home gardeners in New Jersey. Some of these varieties are available only through seed company catalogs. For a listing of seed companies, see fact sheet FS1163, Mail ...

Pesticides for New Jersey is made up of nine major sections: ...