Gardeners and gardening trends in the United States

Outlooks on Pest Management

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 51-56

  Matheny, Amanda L ^a   Traunfeld, Jon ^b,c   Raupp, Michael J ^d   Brown, Amy E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HGIC   (United States)

^c Home and Garden Information Center   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Gardeners; Green gardening; Integrated Pest Management; IPM; Master gardeners; Pesticide use

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249145191     PISSN: 17431026     EISSN: 17431034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1564/20apr02     Document Type: Article

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