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January 1, 2000 Bag Apples for Spray Free Apple Maggot Control Growing Tropical Ferns Indoors Making an Accurate Plant Disease Diagnosis, Part 1 Phomopsis Blight of Junipers and White Cedar Insect Damage to Clothes	February 1, 2000 Caring for Valentine Flowers Alternatives to Roses for Valentine's Day Understanding Amaryllis Start Onion Seeds Indoors Order Oriental Vegetable Seeds Two New Blueberries for Minnesota Grow a Little Love in Your Garden Pavement Ants in Homes During Winter Making an Accurate Plant Disease Diagnosis, Part 2 Getting To Know Your Fungicides: Lime-Sulfur	March 1, 2000 Apple Rootstocks: a Primer Weird Weather? Snow Molds in the Home Lawn Dormant Season Fungicide Application The Disease Triangle Snow Fleas Boxelder Bugs and Ladybird Beetles They Really Are Coming Out of the Woodwork: Powderpost Beetles
April 1, 2000 The Scoop on Vermiculite for Potting Mixes and Garden Beds Effect of Mild Winter Weather on Insect Numbers Spring Bulb Basics Weed Control in Gardens Iris Borers Are Active in April Be Prepared for Spring Diseases - Monitor the Weather Ladybird Beetles and Asthma Stop Pruning Your Oak Trees! Apple Scab Reminder Diagnosing Lawn Diseases	April 15, 2000 Update on Vermiculite All America Selections; Orange Will be "Hot" in This Year's Gardens Healthy Vegetables are in; Grow All America Selections Unhealthy Evergreens Iris Leaf Spot Plant Pathology Reminders Be on the Alert for Spring Insects House Centipedes in Spring Tiny Red Clover Mites Are Found in Homes Now Now is a Good Time to Seal Old Yellowjacket Entrances	May 1, 2000 Think "Color" When Choosing Flowering Annuals Potato Potpourri Plum Pox, a New Threat to U. S. Stone Fruits Necrotic Ring Spot is Back! New Disease Resistance Information for Honeycrisp and Zestar! Spring Leaf Diseases Beware of Blacklegged Ticks Andrenid Bees Are Active Now White Grub Damage Eastern Tent Caterpillar Is Active Now Watch Out For Cutworms in Your Garden Clover Mites Still Very Common Larder Beetles Now Here's Something You Don't See Everyday
May 15, 2000 Pine Bark Adelgid Forest Tent Caterpillar Grape Flea Beetle Carpenter Ants Swarms What Is the Worm on the Floor? Large Mystery Insect Understanding Soil Test Reports Creeping Charlie, Revisited Heading into Drought? Gardening Under Trees It's Time to Protect Your Colorado Blue Spruce Shoot Blights of Aspen, Lilac, Apple, and Pear Be on the Look for Rust Fungi	June 1, 2000 Preventing Storm Damage to Trees – Are Your Trees a Hazard? Don't Collect Grass Clippings Sodding the Lawn Delightful (?) Dandelion Ants in Turf Fourlined Plant Bugs Forest Tent Caterpillar Nuisance June Beetles Black Flies End of European Pine Sawflies and Eastern Tent Caterpillars Powdery Mildew Prevent Black Spot on Rose Is it Anthracnose or is it Frost?	June 15, 2000 Garden Lilies, They're Grrrreat! Honeylocust Plant Bug Spittlebugs Aphids Insect and Mite Galls Another Large Mystery Insect Chlorpyrifos To Be Eliminated Grape Diseases Problems with Purple Coneflower and Black-Eyed Susan Are there Mushrooms in Your Yard? Plants On the Edge -- Native Minnesota Flora for Shorelines Phosphorus Impacts: Fact or Fiction?
July 1, 2000 Summer Lawn Care Watersheds, Phosphorus & Water Quality Produce Doesn't Grow on Grocery Store Shelves Grape Flea Beetle Larvae Bird Mites Pine Spittlebug Springtails Caddisflies	July 15, 2000 "Poisonous Plants" -- Do They Belong in Your Garden or Landscape? Soil Test Fees Go Up Biological Control of Insect Pests in Garden Settings: Commercially Available Beneficial Insects Dealing With Hail-Damaged Plants False Japanese Beetles Forest Tent Caterpillars Pine False Webworms Masked Hunters	August 1, 2000 Repotting Houseplants Understanding Soil pH Fairy Rings: Curse or Curiosity Too much of a Good Thing? Nuisance Weevils in Homes Earwigs In and Around Homes Concealed Wasp Nests in Homes Jumping Oak Gall Pine Root Collar Weevils
August 15, 2000 Tree Legalities Osage Oranges; Not for Dessert Share Garden Surplus Water Stress in Trees and Shrubs It's a Hummingbird, It's a Moth, It's a What? Sphecid Wasps Fall Webworms Squash Bugs	September 1, 2000 Add Beauty to Your Landscape; Plant Evergreens Fall, An Excellent Time To Control Those Persistent Perennial Weeds Controlling Wasp Nests Aphids on Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia) Aster Leafhoppers Black Willow Aphids Tortoise Beetles in Gardens	September 15, 2000 Storing Home Grown Produce Black and Yellow Argiope Spider Late Summer Caterpillars Millipedes
October 1, 2000 Protecting Marginal Plants Look for Minnesota Gardening Calendar Buckthorn Control Swarms of Winged Ants Check Your Houseplants for Insects Cut Back Iris After Frost Use Integrated Approach To Control Fleas Snow Mold on Turf: Prevention is the Key Fun Fact: Fall Blooms On Spring Flowering Trees	November 1, 2000 Restoration In The Northwoods Orchids: Not Only for the Rich and Famous Garden Calendar Reminder Multicolored Asian Lady Beetles Are Those Ants or Anthicids? Biting Bugs	December 1, 2000 Low Maintenance Alternative Turf Trials Turf ratings Components, seeding rates, sources Gift Suggestions for Gardeners Growing Norfolk Island Pine Year-Round You Mite Have Houseplant Insects: A Pesticide Update Meal Moths or Clothes Moths?