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Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment
UMass Extension Greenhouse Crops and Floriculture Program
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Resources for Garden Retailers

Greenhouse Crops and Floriculture

Home Lawn and Garden Information

Link to Home and Garden Resources

  • Fact sheets on landscape and garden - flowers, vegetables, fruit, trees and shrubs and turf)
  • Soil testing (for fee)
  • Plant problem diagnostics (for fee)
  • Newsletters for home gardeners
  • Master gardener hotlines in Massachusetts
  • Botanic gardens in Massachusetts
  • Poisonings
  • Conservation and Wildlife

UMass Extension provides informational resources, programs, and research data directly to Green Industry businesses and professionals, who in turn provide the information to the public via their customers. It is our goal to educate the professional, who in turn can better serve their clients and answer home gardening and landscape questions.

Fact Sheets

  1. Asian Longhorned Beetle
  2. Planting Tomatoes & Grafted Tomatoes
  3. Growing Tomatoes
  4. Hydrangeas: Pruning for Blooms
  5. Hydrangeas: Color and Fertilizing
  6. Watering New Plantings
  7. Fall Flowers: Mums and Annuals
  8. Fall Planting Trees and Shrubs
  9. Fall Plantings: Successful Care
  10. Holiday Plant Care Fall and Winter (Amaryllis, Cyclamen, Holiday Cactus, Paperwhites, Poinsettias)
  11. Holiday Plant Care Spring (Azalea, Rex Begonia, Spring bulbs, Easter lily, Primrose, Calceolaria, Cineraria)
  12. Pruning Shrubs
  13. Growing Herbs
  14. Easy Herbs
  15. Preserving Herbs
  16. Starting Seeds Indoors
  17. Caring for Seedlings
  18. Plan a Vegetable Garden
  19. Planting a Vegetable Garden
  20. Deer Resistant Plants
  21. Perennials, Continuous Color
  22. Annuals for Shade
  23. Annuals for Sun
  24. Colorful Container Gardens
  25. Clematis

Publications & Resources

  • Newsletters
  • Greenhouse Best Management Practices (BMP) Manual
  • New England Greenhouse Floriculture Guide
  • Biological Control/Organic Information
  • Pesticide Information (Labels, MSDS, WPS)
  • Pesticide Licensing (Certification, Exams, Workshops)
  • Resources for Garden Retailers
  • Useful Links
  • Nutrient Management
  • Soil and Plant Nutrient Testing and Diagnostics

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