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Home page- Mobile view

A – Z search: Search feature with auto-fill typing of 540 pest/ problem content pages.

Household pests: Navigation page with icons,

text and links to 11 second-level navigation

pages leading to 35 indoor and structural pest

content pages with one ‘How to’ guide.

Animal pests: Navigation page with icons and

links to 15 vertebrate pest content pages and

one ‘How to guide.

Plant problems: Navigation page with icons,

text and links to six second-level navigation

pages, 26 third-level navigation pages leading

to 390 problem/pages and 19 ‘How to’ guides.

Weeds and invasive plants: Navigation with

icons, text and links to six second-level

navigation pages, 29 third-level navigation

pages with 100 problem/pest pages and 12

‘How to’ guides focused on practical weed

management strategies and techniques.

Pesticide risk reduction communications:

Navigation page with icons, text and links to

Six responsive design tables with visual

content and text to convey the relative risk

of general use pesticides in high, medium

and low risk categories.

Six responsive design tables with visual

content and text to convey the relative risk

of restricted use materials in high, medium

and low risk categories.

Thirty four guides on specific topics to help

users reduce the risk of pesticides to

human health and the environment.

Horizontal scroll feature: Users

browse through visual content, text

and links to find timely information

about high-priority invasives.

Content areas # pages

Household pests 35

Animal pests 15

Plant problems 390

Weeds and invasive plants 100

‘How to’ guides 40

Pesticide risk reduction guides 34

Spanish language content 246

Total content pages 860

Spanish language content:

Determine priorities with

stakeholder input. Develop

communications strategies,

translate content and conduct

usability testing and evaluation.

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Website footer- Mobile view

Basic page with county-by-county listings for OSU Extension offices, staff and Master Gardener volunteers.

Link to pre-existing “Ask an Expert” question-answer system linked to OSU staff and MG volunteers with publicly available repository of cases. Part of a nation-wide eXtension system.

‘How to’ guides: Navigation page with visual

content, text and links to five second-level

navigation pages; 40 pre-formatted pages with

cultural information and tips to avoid

problems; links to common problems, weed

management guidelines and resources for

more information.

Pesticide risk reduction guides. See page 36

above for details.

What to look for this month: Drop down

horizontal scroll feature allows users to

browse through visual content, text and links

of common problems and pests month by

month.

Basic page with information about how to

choose pesticide applicator.

Basic web page with text and logos of funders

and partners of this projects.

Include link to information about how to use

the IPM website itself.

Poison control information.

The website will also make it easy for users to

print individual website pages.

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Household pests navigation page- Mobile view

Household pests: The categories for this

navigation page are based on groupings of

pest control products found on store shelves.

The icons, text and links on this navigation

page lead to 35 total pest/problem pages.

See Appendix 1 on page 92 for a view of the

full sample page for mold and mildew.

See Appendix 8 on page 97 for a view of the

full sample page for yellow jackets.

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Animal pests navigation page- Mobile view

Animal pests: Groupings of vertebrate pests are

based on common management strategies.

‘How to’ guide describing overall management

strategies for vertebrate pests.

Links to a navigation page leading to three

separate pages for each type of pest.

A – Z search of vertebrate pests.

Links to a navigation page leading to bird

pests of structures and birds pests of crops.

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Plant problems navigation page- Mobile view

Link to navigation page with ‘How to’ guides for growing healthy plants.

Plant problem content summary

Level 2 navigation pages

Level 3 Nav pages

Pest pages

‘How to’ pages

Lawns and turf 35 1

Berries, fruits, and nuts 10 125 10

Vegetables and melons 10 90 10

Ornamental plants 6 120 6

Houseplants 10 1

Indoor gardening 10 1

Total 26 390 19

Vegetables and melons: Third-level navigation pages based on 10 vegetable crop families.

Lawns and turf: Pest/problem navigation page with visual content, text and links to 35 lawn problems.

Ornamental plants: Third-level navigation pages based

on these groupings: Herbaceous flowers (annual and

perennials), roses, azaleas and rhododendrons, conifer

trees and shrubs, non-coniferous evergreen trees and

shrubs, deciduous trees and shrubs.

Houseplants: Navigation page with visual content, text and links to 10 houseplant problems.

Indoor gardening: Navigation page with visual content, text and links to 10 indoor vegetable and culinary herb gardening problems.

Berries, fruits, and nuts: Third-level navigation pages based on these groupings: Blueberries, blackberries and raspberries, strawberries, grapes, kiwis, currants, pome fruits, stone fruits, walnut and filbert.

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Weeds and invasive plants navigation page- Mobile view

Weeds and invasive plants: Navigation page

with icons, text and links to six second-level

navigation pages, 29 third-level navigation

pages with 100 problem/pest pages and 12

‘How to’ guides focused on practical weed

management strategies and techniques.

Horizontal scroll feature: Users browse

through visual content, text and links to find

timely information about high-priority

invasive plants.

A – Z search function by common name of

weed or invasive plant.

Navigation page with links to guides to

manage weeds/invasive plants based on

growth habit: annual, perennial, biennial,

grasses, woody trees and shrubs.

Navigation page with links to ‘How to’ guides

to manage weeds/invasive plants based on

land use areas consistent with herbicide

labels: Bare ground areas, berry, fruit, and

nut areas; vegetable and melon areas and

riparian/habitat areas.

Navigation page with icons, text and links to

’How to’ guides based on the weeds’ growth

habits. Categories include: herbaceous broad

leaf plants, grasses and grass-like plants,

woody trees and shrubs.

Navigation page with visual weed

identification tool. See page 47 below for

details.

Navigation page with links to ‘How to’ guides

to manage moss in different areas: Lawn and

landscape, decks and walkways and roofs.

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Pesticide risk reduction navigation- Mobile view

Pesticide risk reduction communications:

All content to be to be shaped with community

input from diverse stakeholders.

Pesticide risk reduction table (Restricted use

only): Six responsive design tables for restricted

use pesticides with pictographic information on

organic status, human health risk, and

environmental risk. Visual content and text will

convey the relative risk of general use pesticides

in high, medium and low risk categories. Tables

include: Herbicides, moss control products,

fungicides, insecticides, rodenticides and

molluscicides available to holders of an ODA

pesticide applicators license. Use strong

disclaimers to dissuade non-commercial

audiences from accessing content.

Choose a pesticide

(General use)

Choose a pesticide

(Commercial use)

Pesticide risk

reduction guides

gguiidestrategies Pesticide risk reduction table (General use):

Six responsive design tables for general use

pesticides with pictographic information on

organic status, human health risk, and

environmental risk. Visual content and text will

convey the relative risk of general use pesticides

in high, medium and low risk categories. Tables

include: Herbicides, moss control products,

fungicides, insecticides, rodenticides and

molluscicides available to the general public at

hardware stores, nurseries and garden centers.

Pesticide risk reduction guides: Thirty four re-

formatted pages supporting site management

decision making while reducing pesticide risk to

people and the environment. See list of topics in

Appendix 9.

How to choose a

pesticide applicator

WARNING:

For commercial

pesticide

applicators only!

Basic page with information about how to

choose a pesticide applicator.

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Drill down to specific kind of plant (Rose) - Mobile view

Home page

Plant problems navigation

Dropdown scroll feature

Roses

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Plant navigation page (Rose) - Mobile view with drop down content

Drop down to horizontal scroll

feature with visual content and text.

‘How to’ guide for growing roses.

Drop down to horizontal scroll

feature for each category of plant

problem: Cultural and physical,

disease and insects/invertebrates.

Dropdown horizontal scroll

feature to browse through

diseases of roses

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Pest/problem page (Rose black spot) - Mobile view with drop down content

What happens if I do nothing?

This section advises website user

about the severity of the problem

and whether immediate action is

warranted or is it something that can

be tolerated without posing further

risk to their structures or property.

See Appendix 8 on page 82 below for a

view of the full sample page for rose

black spot.

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Pest/problem page (Rose black spot) - Tablet and desktops views

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Weeds and invasive plants drill down- Mobile view

Herbaceous broad

leaf plants

Browse by plant

growth pattern

Grasses and grass-

like plants

Wood trees and

shrubs

Browse type of by plant growth

pattern

Browse by common name (A – Z

listing of common name)

Amaranth

Bindweed, field

Bittercress

Buttercup

Chamomile

Chickweed

Canada thistle

Catsear

Bur clover

See page 48 for wire frame of

Canada thistle content page.

Bedstraw

Amaranth

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Weeds and invasive plants content page (Canada thistle) - Mobile view

Young leaves

have hairs and

prickly edges.

Example 2

Example

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Young leaves

have hairs and

prickly edges.

Canada thistle (Colorado Weed

Management Association)

Canada thistle (Oregon State

University)

Canada thistle (Penn State University)

Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense)

Example 2 Exampl

e 3

Line drawing of leaves and flowers.

What happens if I do nothing?

Unmanaged patches can quickly form

large, dense stands that choke out native

and ornamental plants. Canada thistle

causes severe problems in landscapes,

pastures and croplands.

See Appendix 1 on page 87 for a view of the

full sample page for Canada thistle.

Example 1

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Visual weed identification tool mockup- Mobile view

Also include woody tree and shrub

and vine categories.

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Menu button functionality- Mobile view

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‘How to’ guide example (How to grow roses)

Roses Rosa spp.

Cultural requirements

Roses grow best when in a site with at least 8 hours of sunlight per day and good drainage.

Flowering is most prolific when their high demands for nutrients and water are met.

Get your roses off to a good start by adding four to six inches of compost to the soil and

loosening the soil up to 24 inches in depth. Dig a generous hole and spread out the roots of a

new bush. Roses thrive in soils with pH of 6.8-7.2; lime or dolomitic lime may be required to

bring pH to that level. A soil test is the most reliable way to know how much lime to add, if any.

Add a complete fertilizer to roses in a split application in the spring and early summer. The

amount of fertilizer to add will vary by the percentage of nutrients in the material. Follow label

instructions for best results.

If soils are shallow, excessively rocky or compacted, you might want to plant roses in raised

beds filled with a purchased planting soil. In areas where gophers or other burrowing rodents

are a problem, the bottoms of raised beds may be lined with ¼-½” hardware cloth or use a wire

cage to protect the roots

Roses require about an inch of water per week, and are best watered with drip irrigation

system so that their leaves remain dry. If an existing sprinkler system is in place, time water

application to roses for the morning, so that foliage will dry quickly. How long you irrigate roses

depends on the soil type in your garden. Determine how much water you’re applying by

watering for a set amount of time. The next day, dig down to determine how deep the water

percolated. If it’s less than about 15-18 inches, apply more water. For example, if 20 minutes of

irrigation wetted the soil to a depth of 4 inches, then irrigate for 60 to 80 minutes (3 to 4 times

as long) to wet the entire root zone. Watering for a longer period, and less often, encourages

deeper root growth.

Roses require annual pruning to look their best. Prune in early spring, before the buds have

begun to swell. First remove any dead, damaged, or diseased canes down to the bud union –

where the canes join the roots. Remove any spindly canes that did not produce the year before.

Then reduce each of the remaining canes by about 1/3. Roses produce blooms on “new wood.”

New shoots will be produced from the bud union, and off existing canes. You can use this

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knowledge to control the overall size of the bush, and still have flowers. The greatest new

growth will come from the top bud remaining on a pruned cane. When cutting back existing

canes, cut on a slant about ¼-½” above an outward-facing bud. This will encourage new growth

and keep the center of the bush open. That in turn encourages good air circulation and reduced

disease problems.

Deadheading is a common practice to encourage more blooms and a fresh appearance in the

garden. Cut the flower stem back to an outward-facing bud above a leaflet with five or seven

leaves.

Prevent problems from happening

Prevent problems with all plants by providing for their basic soil, sun, water and nutrient needs.

Mulch will reduce weed problems among roses and make the weeds that do grow easier to

remove.

In the Pacific Northwest, roses are subject to fungal diseases like rust, powdery milder, and

black spot. Choosing resistant cultivars is the best way to minimize these problems. Choose

varieties that are resistant to these common problems. For a list of rose cultivar disease

resistance, see OSU’s Rose Cultivar Resistance table.

Aphids are the most common insect problem in roses. They tend to cluster on unopened buds

and on the underside of leaves. Aphids can be knocked to the ground with a strong stream of

water; they will not be able to climb back up onto the buds. Insecticidal soap is also an effective

and reasonably safe solution to aphid outbreaks.

If you follow the recommended management practices above and can tolerate minor damage

to your roses from diseases and insects, it is possible to grow them without using pesticides.

See the Fungicide risk reduction table to find safe and effective disease control products. See

Insecticide risk reduction table to find safe and effective insect control products.

For more information

Hortsense Common Diseases: Powdery Mildew

Hortsense Common Diseases: Rusts

UC IPM

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Pesticide risk reduction guide example (Weed killer for lawns)

Weed killer for lawns

Lawns are important components of home landscapes and can require considerable time and

resources to maintain. Hardware stores, nurseries and garden centers offer many herbicide

products for use in lawns. Prepare yourself with information before choosing a chemical

solution to weeds in lawns.

For general information about caring for your lawn, see How to grow healthy lawn guide.

Determine your weed management goals

Can you accept broadleaf weeds like clover and lawn daisy in your lawn? These often blend in

nicely with turf grass. They also provide food for pollinators. If so, you can manage your lawn

without weed killers. Just mow, water, fertilize and fill in bare spots and thin areas by regularly

sowing grass seed into a thin layer of compost tamped down on the bare spot. Water regularly

until young seedlings are well established.

Clovers can out-compete grasses when soil is low in nitrogen. If you don’t want clovers growing

in the lawn, fertilize grass in the late spring and fall to favor turf grass species and squeeze out

clovers.

Identify the weeds

The first step to managing a weed in your yard is to identify the plant, how it grows and

determine best management practices. See Visual weed identification tool to identify the

weeds in your lawn.

Weed killer in lawns: Choosing and using herbicide products.

See the weed killers section of the pesticide risk reduction table for more information about

specific active ingredients of herbicides.

Non-selective herbicides kill existing grass and weeds. Use them to start over if your lawn is

severely infested with tough perennial weeds like dandelions and bindweed. These products

are best applied in early fall. They will kill all vegetation in the lawn. Then renovate the lawn in

the spring or early fall. See How to grow healthy lawn guide.

Selective herbicides will kill either broadleaf plants or grasses. They are best for spot

applications. If there are broadleaf plants growing in your lawn that you cannot tolerate, try

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hand removal first. If you choose to use a selective weed killer, apply it during the fall when

broadleaf plants are actively sending sugars to their root systems in preparation for winter.

For unwanted grasses like crabgrass, first prevent it from going to seed and try hand removal. If

hand removal is not feasible, spot-apply a selective herbicide that kills unwanted grasses like

crabgrass.

Weed and feed products are displayed prominently in stores in the spring. These lawn-specific

products are a blend of herbicides and fertilizers. Although easy to use and convenient, weed

and feed products are not recommended because:

Weed and feed products apply a fertilizer and an herbicide to the entire lawn whether

both are needed or not.

Weed and feed products are generally intended for early spring application. Early

spring is not the best time to fertilize lawns - late spring and again in the fall are. Plants

actively take up fertilizers when warmer temperatures start a growth-spurt.

Many weed and feed products contain pre-emergent herbicides that prevent weed

seeds from germinating. They don’t kill existing weeds.

If the lawn is growing vigorously, weeds have been kept under control, and bare spots

have been reseeded, there are fewer weed seeds in the soil and fewer sites for them to

gain a foot-hold. A pre-emergent weed killer is unnecessary.

Prevent weeds from becoming reestablished

Once weeds in lawns are successfully managed and new weed seeds are not finding their way

to bare soil in the lawn, it is possible to keep the lawn area looking good without regular use of

a weed killer. Maintain a robust stand of turf grass through proper fertilization, irrigation,

mowing and by preventing weeds from going to seed.

Corn gluten meal and organic herbicides

Corn gluten meal is a corn product. Though this material is sometimes marketed as a pre-

emergent herbicide, its efficacy as a weed killer is unknown. Its nitrogen content might support

more vigorous grass growth.

Contact herbicides like soaps and essential oil will burn the grass blades and weed leaves that

they contact, but they will not kill established plants, especially perennial weeds like

dandelions. These products are not effective solutions to lawn weed problems.

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For more information

Lawn myth busting: Skip the spring ‘weed and feed’- Cornell University

UC IPM

Guide to Controlling Weeds in Cool Season Turf- University of Maryland.