NURSERY

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  Download the IPM Monitoring Form
from IPM Training Manual for Wholesale Nursery Growers
Darr, S., H. Olkowski & W. Olkowski. 1992.
Bio-Integral Resource Center, Berkeley, CA &
Wholesale Nuresery Growers of America, Washington, DC 84 pp.
(this printable file requires Acrobat Reader)

ARTICLES

GENERAL NURSERY IPM :

  • Check Those Plants for Unwanted Pests
  • The Food Quality Protection Act and the Green Industry
  • Searching for Substitutes for the Japanese Black Pine
  • Winter Injury of Rhododendron
  • Bridge Grafting and Inarching of Damaged Trees
  • Recommended Street Trees for Connecticut '93
  • The Dogwood Decline

    • INSECTS:

  • New Pest Concern in New England:  Winter Moth  May 2006
  • Smaller Japanese Cedar Longhorn Beetle get acrobat reader(Adobe Acrobat .pdf file)
  • Common Pests Found on Selected Host Ornamental Plants
  • Beneficial Nematodes
  • Birch Leafminer and Its Control
  • Boxelder Bugs and Their Control
  • Common Insect Pests of Rhododendron
  • Hemlock Wooly Adelgid
  • Lace Bugs
  • Rhododendron Gall Midge
  • Spruce Gall Adelgid
  • The White Pine Weevil
  • The Black Vine Weevil

    • DISEASES:

  • New Pest Concern in New England:  Chrysanthemum White Rust Sept. 2007
  • New Needlecast Disease for Connecticut: Canavirgella Needlecast of Pine
  • Dogwood Anthracnose Research Update
  • Leaf Spot Disease of Trees and Shrubs
  • Phytophthora Dieback and Root Rot
  • Powdery Mildew on Ornamentals
  • Phytophthora Dieback of Rhododendron
  • Rhododendron Wilt

    • WEEDS:

  • Comparison of Herbicides, Fabric Discs and Mulches for Preventing Weeds in Nursery Containers slide presentation
  • Purple Loosestrife is Not Just Another Pretty Plant

    • NURSERY IPM LINKS:

    OTHER IPM LINKS

    UConn Plant Database

     

    NURSERY IPM COORDINATOR
    (commercial interests & growers)
    MARK BRAND  & DONNA ELLIS

     

    		 860-486-2930

    ORNAMENTALS OR NURSERY QUESTIONS (homeowners)

    phone toll free
    1-877-486-6271
    or     email

    NURSERY CROPS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

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