Vegetable Management Guide 2008-2009

New England Vegetable Management Guide

• Table of Contents
• Abbreviations

Cultural Practices

• Crop Budgets
• Varieties
• Soil Tests
• Plant Nutrients
• Compost Use and Soil Fertility
• Organic Certification
• Guidelines for Organic Fertilization
• Crop Rotation
• Cover Crops and Green Manures
• Irrigation
• Raised Beds
• Plastic Mulch, Row Covers, and High Tunnels
• Estimating Vegetable Yields
• Postharvest Handling
• Food Safety

Pest Management

• Introduction
• Diagnostics
• Pesticide Safety and Use
• Water Protection
• Biorational Pesticides
• Weed Management
• Insect Management
• Disease Management

Management for Vegetable Bedding Plants

• Introduction
• Managing Plant Height
• Disease Management
• Resistant Cultivars
• Growing Media
• Steam
• Sanitation
• Techniques to Reduce High Humidity
• Seed Treatments
• Fungicides
• Biofungicides
• Specific Diseases
• General Pest Management
• Specific Insect Pests and Mites
• Bedding Plant Fertility Program

Crops

• Asparagus
• Basil
• Bean, Snap, Dry, and Lima
• Beet and Swiss Chard
• Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, and Other Brassica Crops
• Carrot and Parsnip
• Celery
• Corn, Sweet
• Corn, Ornamental and Popcorn
• Cucumber, Muskmelon, and Watermelon
• Eggplant
• Garlic
• Leeks
• Lettuce, Endive and Escarole
• Mesclun
• Okra
• Onion
• Parsley
• Pea
• Pepper
• Potato
• Pumpkin, Squash, and Gourds
• Radish
• Rutabaga and Turnip
• Spinach
• Sweet Potato
• Tomato, Outdoor
• Tomato, Greenhouse

Risk Management

• Introduction to Risk Management and Crop Insurance Options for New England Vegetable Growers
• The Big Five: Types of Agricultural Risk
• Think Crop Insurance is Not Right for You? Think Again!
• Commodity Insurance: Fresh Market Sweet Corn
• Insurance Coverage for Organic Crops
• References for Commercial Vegetable Growers

Appendix

• Pesticide Dilution and Measurement

Pest ID Guide

• Entire Document (5.4 MB)

or in sections

• Pest ID Guide Pages 1-8 (340 KB)
• Pest ID Guide Weeds 9-15 (1.1 MB)
• Pest ID Guide Insects 16-27 (1.5 MB)
• Pest ID Guide Diseases 28-45 (2.1 MB)
• Pest ID Strawberry 46-50 (704 KB)
• Pest ID Guide Back Cover (204 KB)