Useful Links

Production

Greenhouse Mgt | Pest Mgt | Disease Test Kits, Pesticide Info, Biological Control | Fact Sheet Data Base | Sources of Plants & Supplies

Greenhouse Management & Specific Crop Production

• USDA Ornamental Price Reports (Boston)
• Guide to Massachusetts Sales and Use Tax
• Greenhouse Costs of Production Budgets (Rutgers)
• How Much Does it Cost to Grow a Greenhouse Crop (Rutgers)
• Budget for Greenhouse Tomatoes (Mississippi State University)
• Conversion Tables & Formulas
• Cornell Greenhouse Horticulture
• North Carolina State’s Commercial Floriculture Page Commercial floriculture leaflets: Aster, Bedding Plants, Ethylene, Flowering Cabbage & Kale, Geraniums, Herbs, Hydrangea, New Guinea Impatiens, Ornamental Vegetables, Pansy,Poinsettias, Potted Sunflowers, Height Management, Plant Nutrition and Pour Through Extraction Method, Water Quality, Greenhouse Weed Management
• ATTRA's on-line publications Sustainable Ag Publications: Herbs, Pest Mgt., Greenhouse Vegetables, Greenhouse Herbs, Plug and Transplants, Solar Greenhouses, Compost Heated Greenhouses
• Organic Greenhouse Vegetable Production (ATTRA)
• University of Maryland’s "Total Plant Management" Program Commercial floriculture leaflets: Cut flowers; Sunflowers, Lilies, Celosia, Yarrow, Purple Coneflower, Anemone, Larkspur, IPM; Weekly Updates
• Rutgers University Floriculture/Greenhouse IPM
• Cut and Potted Bulb Flowers The Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center
• Specialty Cut Flowers (Book by Armitage and Laushman with production and yield information)
• University of Vermont Perennials
• University of New Hampshire Calculation tools for fertilizer, plant growth regulators and energy, Poinsettias: Weekly flower dev. photos, Cost analysis, Marketing & Cultivars, Plant Breeders, Scheduling, Propagation, Production Guidelines, Nutrition, Height Mgt., Diagnostics, Pest Mgt., Consumer Care. Supplemental lighting, Overwintering Perennials, Graphical Tracking, Plant Nutrition: Low pH, Iron and Manganese Toxicity, Budget for Producing Vegetative Cuttings
• Rutgers University - Horticultural Engineering Greenhouse Engineering newsletter
• Fertilizer Injectors: Selection, Maintenance and Calibration University of Georgia Cooperative Extension
• Relative Humidity Calculation

Pest Management

• Cornell's Biocontrol site
• Integrated Pest Management in the Northeast Region
• University of Connecticut's IPM site
• University of Maryland’s IPMNET
• Biological Control News
• Iowa State’s Index of Internet Entomology Resources
• American Phytopathological Society
• APSnet 'Feature Story' on tospoviruses
• Penn State's Disease Factsheets for Ornamental Plants, by disease, then by crop
• Texas A&M's Disease Handbook by crop
• 'Tospovirus' part of Univ. of Maryland's 'NurseryWeb'
• Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) Non-profit organization that specializes in the review of substances for use in organic production, processing, and handling.
• Massachusetts Pesticide Bureau Pesticide licensing, laws, regulations.
• EPA Worker Protection Standards Manual How to comply manual.

Sources for Disease Test Kits, Pesticide Information, Biologicals

• Agdia Test Kits Disease test kits
• Hydros Co. Disease test kits
• Chemical & Pharmaceutical Press, Inc.'s Greenbook Pesticide labels
• Crop Data Management Systems, Inc. Pesticide labels
• EXTOXNET – The EXtension TOXicology NETwork Pesticides: Toxicology, Technical Information from UC Davis, Oregon State Univ., Michigan State, Cornell Univ., Univ. of Idaho
• Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Pesticide Programs
• Green Methods Biological Control
• IPM Laboratories, Inc. Biological Control

Search Engines for Finding Fact Sheets or for Plant ID

• Ohio State University's searchable Factsheet database Over 60,000 pages of Extension Fact Sheets

Plant Materials and Supplies

• Massachusetts Flower Growers' Association See Membership Directory