Learn More Using the Resources Below

• Extension Gardener - Coastal Plains

Birds and Wildlife

• Urban Landscaping for Wildlife With Native Plants

Carteret Backyard Foods

• A Small Greenhouse for the Backyard Home Gardener
• Beneficial Garden Insects
• Blackberries for the Home Garden
• Carteret Vegetable Gardening - Month By Month
• Cucumbers - Downy Mildew
• Disease and Insect Management in Fruit Trees
• Fire Ants in the Home Vegetable Garden
• Herbicide carryover in Hay, Manure, Compost and Grass Clippings
• Keeping Backyard Chickens
• Local Seafood, Carteret Catch
• Squash Vine Borer and Squash Bug
• Tomato Plants - Late Blight
• Tomato Plants - Saving Heirloom Tomato Seeds
• Tomato Plants - Wilt Diseases
• Tomatoes, Home Garden
• Tree Fruit in Carteret County
• Vegetable Fact Sheets
• Vegetable Variety Ratings By Gardeners
• Winter in the Vegetable Garden

Carteret County Specialty Horticulture for Local Growing Conditions

• Beach Plant Sources
• Native and Highly Adapted Plants List
• Native Plant Resources
• Plants for Hurricanes
• Plants for Wet and High Water Table Soils
• Salt Tolerant Plants
• Shrubs for Wet Areas
• U.FL. Trees and Hurricanes

Carteret Household Pests

• Ants

Diseases and Insects

• Azalea Pests
• Bed Bug Pesticides
• Butterflies in Your Backyard
• Carpenter Bees
• Carteret Insects: Ground Pearl
• Centipede Decline
• Control Root Knot Nematodes in Your Garden
• Fire Ants
• Fire Ants: Club Soda Myth
• Ground Bees
• Kudzu Bug
• Large Patch in Grasses
• Nematode Control in the Home Vegetable Garden
• Phytophthora Root or Crown Rot
• Powdery Mildew on Ornamentals
• Preparing Your Diseased Plant Sample for Submission
• Root Knot Nematodes, Biocontrol
• White Grubs in Turf

Home Fruit Trees

• Disease and Insect Management in Fruit Trees
• Disease and Insect Management in the Home Garden
• Peach Tree: Pruning A Two Year Old Peach Tree
• Peach Trees: Planting
• Peach Trees: Pruning a Mature Peach Tree
• Peach Trees: Pruning A Young Peach Tree
• Training and Pruning Fruit Trees Mar 2012
• Tree Fruit in Carteret County

Information Portals

• Blackberries and Raspberries
• Blueberries
• Composting
• Extension Entomology - Insect Biology and Management
• Extension Gardener
• Gardening in North Carolina (Urban Horticulture)
• Horticulture
• Muscadine Grapes
• NC Community Gardens
• Therapeutic Horticulture

LAWN AND GARDEN PESTS

• Harmless Lawn Shrimp
• Mole Control Update Information (Out of State. For info only.)
• Moles In Our Yard, NC
• Moles, Voles and Rabbits
• Oak Galls

More Extension Programs at NC State University

• Apiculture and Beekeeping
• Fruit Crops
• NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic
• Urban Wildlife
• Wildlife Extension

National eXtension Resources

• Bee Health
• Gardens and Landscapes
• Imported Fire Ants
• Water Conservation for Lawn and Landscape

Newsletters

• Extension Gardener
• Extension Gardener: Crystal Coast Blog

Palms

• Normal "Abnormalitiees" in Palms
• Palm Diseases
• Palm Diseases & Nutritional Problems

Partnerships - Organizations - Statewide News - Information

• JC Raulston Arboretum
• NC Soil Testing Lab

Publications, Information, and News

• Crape Myrtle Varieties
• Going Native
• Mulch
• Muscadine Grape Production Guide for NC
• Rainwater Harvesting: Guidance for Homeowners
• Sources of Grass Carp for Ponds

Social Media

• Extension Gardener on Facebook

Soils

• Compost at Newport Transfer Station
• Contaminents in Urban Soils
• Essential Plant Nutrients
• Labs That Test For Heavy Metals
• Learn More About Soil Health
• Lowering Soil pH

Specialized Search Tools

• Plants Database

Testing - Submitting Diseased Samples

• Plant Tissue Analysis
• Preparing Flower and Vegetable Samples for Submission - VIDEO
• Preparing Trees & Shrubs for Sample Submission - VIDEO

Testing Your Soil

• Find Your Test Results Here
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Packing Soil Samples for Shipment
• Soil Sample Submission Form
• Soil Sampling for Home Lawns & Gardens
• The Need for Soil Testing
• Understanding the Soil Test Report
• Video Tour - NCDA&CS Soil Sample Lab

Volunteers in Extension

• Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Application
• NC Master Beekeeper Program
• North Carolina Extension Master Gardener Volunteers Program

Weeds

• Guide to Some of the More Common Poisonous Plants of the South
• Vetch:spring: vining stems, purple flowers