Fact Sheets
Specific Crops
The understanding of cultural needs of floriculture crops and use of proper crop production techniques is an essential component of a Total Crop Management program. The following fact sheets provide detailed information on the production of specific floriculture crops.
Spring Crops and Bedding Plants | Cut Flowers | Perennials and Fall Crops | Poinsettias | Other Potted Plants | Woody Ornamentals
Spring Crops and Bedding Plants
- 2001 New England Trial Garden Evaluation
- Planning for Spring: Production Guidelines for Osteospermum, Angelonia, Calibrachoa, Ornamental Sweet
- Potato (Ipomoea batatas)
- Growing Quality Geraniums
- New Guinea Impatiens: Watch Out for Soluble Salts!
- Pest Management for Vegetable Bedding Plants
- Pest
Management for Herb Bedding Plants Grown in the Greenhouse
- Fertilizing Bedding Plants
- pH and Fertility Review for Vegetatively-propagated Annuals
- Chemical Growth Regulation of Bedding Plants
- Subirrigating Seed Geraniums with Bonzi
- Growing Vegetable Bedding Plants (Managing plant height, pest management, nutrient management)
- Starting Vegetable Bedding Plants(Choosing varieties, starting from seed, scheduling, organic production links)
Cut Flowers
- Field Grown Annuals for Cut Flowers
- Weed Management for Outdoor Cut Flowers
- Sugar and Acidity in Preservative Solutions for Field-grown Cut Flowers
- Postharvest Handling of Six More Field-grown Cut Flowers -- Astilbe, Gladiolus, Helianthus, Liatris, Lilium, Zinnia
- Using Coralbells as Cut Flowers
- Postharvest Handling Tips for Cut Flowers of Some Spring Flowering Bulbs
- Insect Problems in Commercial Production of Outdoor Cut Flowers
Perennials & Fall Crops
- Forcing Bleeding Heart for Spring Sales
- Garden Asters
- Growing Garden Mums for Fall Sales
- Garden Mums-Past Production Problems and Production Tips
- Flowering Cabbage and Kale
- Overwintering Containerized Perennials
- Preventing Rodent Damage to Overwintering Perennials
- Daylily Rust
Poinsettias
- Fertilizer Recommendations for Poinsettias
- Growth Retardants for Poinsettias
- Late Season Application of Bonzi to Control Stretch of Poinsettia
Potted Plants (Greenhouse)
- Forcing Bleeding Heart for Spring Sales
- Commercial Production of Holiday Cacti
- Producing Fleurette Chrysanthemums as Centerpieces
- Chrysanthemum White Rust
- Growing Quality Geraniums
- Production of Hybrid Lilies as Pot Plants
- 2009 Easter Lily Schedule
- Scheduling the 2009 Easter Lily Crop
Woody Ornamentals
