Gardening Publications and Resources

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A list of some of our most popular and useful publications.

Articles and Publications

Get Actionable Results from a Soil, Plant or Environmental Testing Lab

Learn how to work with an analytical laboratory to get useful results from your plant tissue, soil or water samples.

Shannon Cappellazzi, Clare Sullivan, Gordon B. Jones, Linda Brewer | May 2024 | OSU Extension Catalog

A Guide to Collecting Soil Samples for Farms and Gardens

Laboratory soil tests help you develop your soil and increase crop production by providing information on available nutrient content. Soil testing helps you select the correct kind and amount of fertilizer and ...

Melissa Fery, Jeff Choate, Elizabeth Murphy | Nov 2022 | OSU Extension Catalog

Soil Test Interpretation Guide

This publication provides an overview of soil testing and general guidelines for interpreting soil test results for nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, potassium, calcium, magnesium, boron, zinc, copper, manganese, iron, ...

Donald A. Horneck, Dan M. Sullivan, Jim Owen, John M. Hart | Jul 2023 | OSU Extension Catalog

Training and pruning your home orchard

A visual guide to training and pruning apple, pear, sweet cherry, sour cherry, peach, plum, apricot, fig, persimmon, walnut, hazelnut and chestnut trees.

Jeff L. Olsen, Neil Bell | Feb 2025 | OSU Extension Catalog

Su Propio Cultivo

¡Growing Your Own ya está disponible como publicación bilingüe en español e inglés! Proporciona consejos básicos sobre una amplia gama de temas relacionados con la jardinería vegetal, incluyendo compostaje, ...

Gail Langellotto | Jun 2023 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Vegetable and Specialty Seed IPM (in English)

About Oregon Vegetables and the Vegetable Cropping Systems Program.

Apr 2018 | Online resource

Managing diseases and insects in home orchards

This pest management guide is for the home gardener. It recommends management practices for controlling diseases and insects in home orchards. It doesn't meet the exacting requirements of the commercial fruit grower.

Jay W. Pscheidt, Heather Stoven, Ashley Thompson, Brooke Edmunds, Nik Wiman, Richard Hilton | Jun 2024 | OSU Extension Catalog

Growing blueberries in your home garden

Learn to grow your own sweet, juicy blueberries in your Oregon garden! Find out which types of blueberries grow best where you live, and which part of your yard is best suited for planting.

Scott Lukas, Amanda Davis, Emily Dixon, Amy Jo Detweiler, Nicole Sanchez | May 2025 | OSU Extension Catalog

Growing blackberries in your home garden

Home gardeners can enjoy a choice of blackberry varieties with fruit far superior to that of wild blackberries. What’s more, home gardeners can pick fruit from early summer all the way to the first frost. ...

Bernadine Strik, Emily Dixon, Amy Jo Detweiler, Nicole Sanchez | Nov 2024 | OSU Extension Catalog

Growing Table Grapes

This pictorial guide will teach you how to plant, prune and train grapes to maximize your harvest and keep vines free of pests and disease. Find out which cultivars grow best in Oregon, and learn what it ...

Bernadine Strik | Apr 2023 | OSU Extension Catalog

Practical Lawn Care for Western Oregon

Describes options for different levels of lawn care – from keeping a lawn lush and green year-round to allowing it to go partially dormant in the summer. Discusses mowing, watering, fertilizing, and dethatching, ...

Doug Voderberg, Alec Kowalewski | Mar 2023 | OSU Extension Catalog

Spotted Wing Drosophila: A Quick, 7-Step Guide to Detecting SWD Larvae in Fruit

This brief guide illustrates how to test fruit for the presence of larvae from the Spotted Wing Drosophila.

Amy J. Dreves, Adam Cave, Jana Lee | Mar 2023 | OSU Extension Catalog

Resources

Swarm List (in English)

Information on how to handle and who to call about bee swarms.

Jul 2018 | Online resource

Jul 2018

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Annual Extension event helps gardeners successfully navigate the unique soils and extreme climate of Central Oregon.

Amy Jo Detweiler | Aug 2024 | Impact story

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Solve Pest Problems provides Oregon gardeners with easy access to research-based solutions for common pest and disease issues, helping them manage their gardens more effectively and safely.

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Sherry Sheng | Volunteer Spotlight 2025 (in English)

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High Desert Garden Tour (in English)

Come and explore several gardens at this self-guided event. The High Desert Garden Tour is July 19th, 2025 in Bend area featuring several sites. Click here for more information.

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Resources for managing in heat waves

When Oregon experiences extremely high temperatures in summer, these resources can help your family, plants and animals weather the heat.

Jul 2022 | Collection

Hydro hints: Nutrient film technique

Nutrient film technique is a hydroponic method that uses a thin, continuous film of nutrient-rich solution to nourish plants.

Mykl Nelson II, Gail Langellotto, Lloyd Nackley | May 2025 | OSU Extension Catalog

Hydro hints: Buckets

The buckets system of hydroponics uses individual buckets filled with a nutrient-rich solution to support plant growth.

Mykl Nelson II, Gail Langellotto, Lloyd Nackley | May 2025 | OSU Extension Catalog

Hydro hints: Deep water culture

Deep water culture is an effective hydroponic system where plant roots grow submerged in a nutrient-rich water solution.

Mykl Nelson, Gail Langellotto, Lloyd Nackley | May 2025 | OSU Extension Catalog

Hydro hints: What is hydroponics?

Learn about how hydroponics evolved and discover the practice's growing role in modern agriculture.

Mykl Nelson, Gail Langellotto, Lloyd Nackley | May 2025 | OSU Extension Catalog

Hydro hints: Ebb and flow

Ebb and flow, also known as flood and drain, is a hydroponic system where plants are grown in trays that periodically flood with nutrient-rich water and then drain back into a reservoir.

Mykl Nelson II, Gail Langellotto, Lloyd Nackley | May 2025 | OSU Extension Catalog

Black slime in my barkdust, is this a concern?

We had new tanbark laid down in our backyard and have been finding black tar looking patches after it rains. We clean them up...then it rains and new patches of it show up again. Have you seen this before or have any...

Janhvi Pandey | Nov 2024 | Featured question

5 Pasos para mantener los alimentos frescos durante el humo de incendios forestales

Learn the five steps you can take to keep produce safe for consumption during a smoke event due to wildfire.

Glenda Hyde, Diana Rohlman, Julia Van Soelen Kim | Mar 2025 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Waterwise gardening in Central Oregon

You can have a colorful and beautiful landscape while conserving water and saving time, energy and money. Learn innovative conservation techniques for waterwise gardening in Central Oregon.

Amy Jo Detweiler | Jun 2020 | OSU Extension Catalog

Central Oregon garden publications

These publications are applicable to gardening in the High Desert region of Central Oregon.

Jul 2018 | Collection

Gardens Are For Everyone

Accessible gardens for home and community garden locations allow everyone to reap the benefits of gardening.

Corinne Thomas-Kersting, Weston Miller | May 2023 | OSU Extension Catalog

Ecological design of urban landscapes: Economic, social and ecological benefits

An ecological approach to landscape design incorporates natural systems as an integral part of urban landscapes. Learn how to bring ecology and design together to form a sustainable urban landscape.

Signe Danler, Gail Langellotto | Oct 2024 | OSU Extension Catalog

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