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
- Guide to Sales Tax
- Greenhouse Cost of Production
- Conversion Tables & Formulas
- 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
- University of Maryland’s "Total Plant Management" Program Commercial floriculture leaflets: Cut flowers; Sunflowers, Lilies, Celosia, Yarrow, Purple Coneflower, Anemone, Larkspur, IPM; Weekly Updates
- Alberta Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Greenhouse Bedding Plant Production and Marketing
- Rutgers University Floriculture/Greenhouse IPM
- Purdue University Poinsettias, Greenhouse Management, Flowering Potted and Foliage Plants, Bedding Plants, Perennials, Cut Flowers
- Cut and Potted Bulb Flowers The Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center
- University of Vermont Perennials
- University of New Hampshire 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
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
