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Season Extension: Pest Management
How to deal with pests and disease in the special growing environment of a hoop house, greenhouse or other season extension method.
In-depth information is available in these specialized subtopics:
Season Extension: Pest Management: The Basics
2003 High Tunnel Production Manual
Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product
A 17-chapter manual covering a wide range of high tunnel production topics. For purchase only.
Basic Pest Management of Insects and Mites in High Tunnels
Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product
This presentation presents an overview of key pest management topics: cultural practices, plant resistance,...
High Tunnels
Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product
Includes case studies, a supplier list and chapters on marketing, site selection, construction and types,...
Moving Nursery Producers Toward Sustainable Practices Fact Sheets
Type: Southern SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product
These fact sheets discuss alternative containers, marketing and crop selection, alternatives to synthetic...
Sustainable Commercial Greenhouse Production Curriculum
Type: Western SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product
A blended course designed for county extension agents and new greenhouse professionals. Participants...
Vegetable Bedding Plants Pest Management
Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product
A University of Massachusetts web page with information on integrated pest management (IPM), a practical...
Season Extension: Pest Management: Grafting for Plant Resilience
How to Graft Greenhouse Tomatoes
Type: Multimedia
This 20-minute video, produced by the University of Vermont Extension, features farmer Mike Collins...
Grafting for Disease Management in Organic Tomato Production
Type: Southern SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product
Learn about tomato grafting and how it can be used to manage diseases in organic open-field and high...
Grafting Tomatoes in Multi-Bay High Tunnels as a Way to Overcome Soil-Borne Diseases
Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product
This presentation summarizes a 2008 grant to evaluate ‘Maxifort’ rootstock for its ability to manage...
Tomato Grafting for Disease Resistance and Increased Productivity
Type: Fact Sheet
Researchers around the world have demonstrated that grafting—the fusing of a scion (young shoot) onto...
Season Extension: Pest Management: Beneficial Insects
Biological Control Practices for High-Tunnel Crop Production
Type: Northeast SARE Project Report
Extensive on-farm research evaluating the use of predator and parasitoid insects to control target pests...
Greenhouse IPM with an Emphasis on Biocontrols
Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product
An in-depth manual designed to help greenhouse growers implement biological control and integrated pest...
Natural Pest Management in New York High Tunnel and Greenhouse Structures
Type: Northeast SARE Project Report
This 2007 Research and Education Grant, awarded to Cornell University, studied the use of predatory...
Predatory Mites for Organic Thrips Control in High Tunnel Cucumbers
Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product
A presentation of research on biological control methods in New York, including cultural practices,...
Season Extension: Pest Management: Biofumigation
Biofumigation for soil health in organic high tunnel and conventional field vegetable production systems
Type: Southern SARE Project Report
This project evaluated biofumigation as a control for two broad-spectrum soil-borne diseases that each...
Organic Control of White Mold in High Tunnels
Type: Southern SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product
This video presents information on the high tunnel production system most commonly used in Kentucky;...
Additional Resources
The following resources, which were not funded or produced by SARE, contain valuable information.
Disease and insect management resources from Hightunnels.org
Greenhouse Manager's Guide to Integrated Pest Management in Northern New England (a University of Vermont guidebook; free PDF available)
Tomato Leaf and Fruit Diseases and Disorders (a Kansas State University fact sheet)
Wilt, Nematode, and Virus Diseases of Tomato (a Kansas State University fact sheet)
How to Order
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