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Agriculture : Horticulture
 Meeting
Schedule
Have a meeting idea- A place you would like to visit or something
on your farm you would like to share? Call (746-2560) or e-mail Laura
at lgm4@cornell.edu!
Not All Coppers
Are Created Equal - Nor Are Their Labels. A Comprehensive Review of
Copper Spays by T. A. Zitter, Cornell University
New Cornell Resource
Cornell Website Helps Gardeners Choose Vegetable Varieties
Gardeners poring over seed catalogs this winter have a new resource to
help them choose which vegetable varieties to grow. The Vegetable Varieties
for Gardeners website (www.cce.cornell.edu/veg
) makes it easy for gardeners to compare varieties and become more aware
of the wide diversity available of varieties that are available. Gardeners
can search or browse through more than 2,000 varieties, view details for
each including how long they take to mature, and find links to seed companies
that sell the variety.
"The site is like an Amazon.com for vegetable varieties, only
we don't actually sell the seeds," says Lori Bushway, Senior
Extension Associate in the Department of Horticulture. "At Amazon's
website, you can study reader ratings and reviews to see if you want to
read a particular book. At our site, you can read gardener ratings and
reviews to see if you want to grow a particular variety," she adds.
The site was developed and is hosted by Cornell Cooperative Extension."The
best way for us to help gardeners choose varieties is to engage them directly,"
says Bushway. "We're making gardeners an essential part of the process
by gathering information in their own gardens, then sharing that information
with their fellow gardeners through the website."
The site also includes links to other Cornell gardening resources, including
online growing guides for more than 60 garden crops.
Links by Subject
Gardening
Cornell's Gardening
Resources website
Beekeeping
Cornell University Master Beekeeper
Program
Marketing
"Smart
Marketing" is a monthly marketing newsletter for food and agricultural
industry by Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell
University.
Vegetable Production
Cornell's Commercial
Vegetable Producer Resource website
Cornell's Vegetable
MD for help with plant diseases. For recent news and disease related
articles on the Vegetable MD click here.
Treatments for Managing Bacterial Pathogens
in Vegetable Seed Margaret Tuttle McGrath, Dept of Plant Pathology,
Cornell University
Common Non-Pathogenic Sweet Corn
Disorders Steve Reiners Associate Professor in Horticultural Sciences
Plastic Mulch and Drip for
Pumpkin Production by Brent Loy, Department of Plant Biology
University of New Hampshire
Growing Tomatoes Using A Trellis
by Stephen Reiners Associate Professor in Horticultural Sciences at Cornell
University
Reflective White-On-Black Mulch
Increases Fruit Yield Of 'Mountain Fresh' Trellised Tomato At High Plant
Density by Amy B. Ouellette and J. Brent Loy Department of Plant Biology
University of New Hampshire
Tomato Disorders by Steve Reiners
Associate Professor in Horticultural Sciences at Cornell University
Cornell's VegMD disease
articles .
Messenger: A New Product For Managing
Pests and Improving Yield in Vegetables and Other Crops by Margaret
Tuttle McGrath Associate Professor, Department of Plant Pathology Cornell
University
Fertilizing Mulched Fields - Are You
Applying Too Much? by Stephen Reiners
Associate Professor in Horticultural Sciences at Cornell University
Prevent Fertilizer Injury This Spring
by Steve Reiners Associate Professor in Horticultural Sciences at Cornell
University
Using Nitrogen Wisely by Steve
Reiners Associate Professor in Horticulture Sciences at Cornell University
Reducing Fire Risks Associated
with Shade Cloth by Ralph Freeman, Cornell Cooperative Extension
Preventing Damage From An Early Frost
by Stephen Reiners Associate Professor in Horticultural Sciences
Organic Maple Production – Marketing
Opportunity or Road to Contempt, Stephen Childs, NYS Maple Specialist,
Cornell Cooperative Extension
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