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Food and Nutrition

• I want to cover and leave carrots in the ground during the winter. How do I keep mice out of them?

Garden

• How much sunlight do my raspberries need?
• We have been putting the dog poop in the composte pile. Is this going to be bad for our composte or for our garden?

Insects

• Do you know of any pest control companies that have an effective treatment for controlling box elder bugs in the fall before they get in the house?
• Does Utah State University offer any beekeeping courses in the Layton, UT area? If so, what information is available?
• I have an infestation of giant willow aphids. How do I get rid of them? What damage will they do?
• I live on the hillside in Bountiful and have small dark red ants in many parts of the house. They are boring through the floors and bathroom cabinets and leaving large piles of sawdust. Obviously I suspect they are carpenter ants and using images on the web I think they are the camponotus herculeanus species. (just a guess though) So how can I be sure? And I'm not sure how to get rid of them or if they can do significant structural damage. I also don't know if I should trust many of the pest control services. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

Orchards

• Can GF-120 be used by home gardeners to control Cherry fruit fly? How should it be applied?

Weather

• Is there a website I can go to in order to get a daily ET rate for the Farmington/Kaysville area?

Yard

• When is the best time of year to reseed my lawn? The weeds and spurge are out of control. Should I rototill the lawn to remove all the weeds first?
• When is the best time to seed native grasses such as streambank and western wheatgrass into an existing Kentucky Bluegrass lawn? Some of what I've read leads me to believe that it would be best to seed in late fall so the seed will germinate in the spring. But I wonder if it would be better to seed in early fall after stressing the KBG. I will also be seeding sheep fescue, but I've seen conflicting information on whether that is native or introduced. My goal is to have a lawn that can survive with no water, and stay green with very little water.