Vegetables

Vegetables

Production

• Oregon Vegetables - Oregon State University website. A wide selection of vegetable production information including the OSU Vegetable Production Guides, VegNet, specialty seed production information, organic production information and more. Use fertilizer recommendations in the OSU Vegetable Production guides with caution because they have not been updated to reflect currently recommended nutrient management practices. The fertilizer guides listed below are more current.
• OSU Nutrient Management Guides:
  • Soil Test Interpretation Guide
  • Sweet Corn Nutrient Management Guide: Western Oregon
  • Nutrient Management for Onions in the Pacific Northwest
• Other Nutrient Management Guides:
  • Soil Fertility Management for Organic Crops - University of California at Davis
  • Nutrient Management for Commercial Fruit & Vegetable Crops in Minnesota - University of Minnesota
• Edamame Production – Washington State University
• Baby Corn Production – Washington State University
• The Diagnosis of Mineral Deficiencies in Plants by Visual Symptoms by William Wallace 1943 ( University of Bristol). Classic photos of plants showing symptoms of various nutrient deficiencies.
• ATTRA Horticultural Production Guides - Crop specific organic production guides and other information
• Ohio State Vegetable Production Guides

Gardening

• Oregon State University Master Gardener Program
• Sustainable Gardening: The Oregon–Washington Master Gardener Handbook
• Growing Your Own
• Other gardening publications from Oregon State University

Seed and varieties

• OSU Vegetable Variety Trials
• OSU Recommended Vegetable Varieties for home gardens
• Characteristics of Potato Varieties in the Pacific Northwest
• Dry Small-Seeded Specialty Seed: A Resource Guide for Oregon and Washington Growers an OSU/WSU guide to seed resources
• Vegetables and Fruits A Guide to Heirloom Varieties and Community-Based Stewardship USDA Agricultural Research Service
• SeedQuest information for seed professionals
• Organic Seed Alliance education, research and advocacy for organic seed producers
• Seed Savers Exchange a network for sharing and saving heirloom seed

Pest management

Also check the biodiversity and pest management section of this website

• OSU Integrated Plant Protection Center This center publishes the PNW Pest Management Handbooks, provides extensive weather station links and pest and crop models, coordinates pest management and pesticide safety training
• Weed ‘Em and Reap OSU videos of weed control tools and reduced tillage systems in use on farms
• Integrated Pest Management for Potatoes in the Western United States
• Vegetable MD Online - Cornell University web site
• Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management – Cornell University book available on-line
• Diseases and Pests of Vegetable Crops in Canada - Photographs, biology and management information for vegetable pests. Link provides text from introductory chapters and order form for the book
• ATTRA Pest Management Publications
• Steel in the Field: A Farmer's Guide to Weed Management Tools SARE book
• Vegetable Farmers and their Weed Control Machines video from Universities of Vermont and Massachusetts
• Columbia Root-Knot Nematode Control in Potato Using Crop Rotations and Cover Crops OSU
• Rhizoctonia on Sugar Beet: Importance, Indentification, and Control in the Northwest

Other useful links

• WSU Vegetable Research and Extension
• ATTRA vegetable publications
• Potato Information Exchange -- Oregon State University
• Vegetable Crops - North Carolina State University
• Sustainable Vegetable Production from Start-Up to Market
• The Corn Growers Guidebook -- Purdue University
• ATTRA Foliar fertilization