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Featured Fruit and Nut Tree Resources

Fruit tree fertilization

Concepts from start to finish in fertilization.

Steve Renquist | May 2018 | Article

Tree Pruning Basics

A properly pruned tree looks as natural as possible; the tree’s appearance reflects its fundamental form and character. The pruner must be sensitive to maintaining this structural integrity, in addition to knowing a bit about tree biology and proper pruning principles.

Nov 2012 | Article

Featured Berry Resources

Growing Raspberries in Your Home Garden

Explains how to grow black, red, and purple raspberries in a home garden. Covers cultivar and site selection, soil preparation, fertilization, and planting. Discusses how to build hedgerow and hill planting systems and trellises. Outlines how to care for established plantings, including fertilizing, mulching, watering, pruning, harvesting, and controlling pests. Includes illustrations of four-wire and three-wire trellis systems.

Bernadine Strik | Mar 2008 | OSU Extension Catalog

Growing Blueberries in Your Home Garden

Describes how to grow highbush and cultivated blueberries in a home garden. Covers how to establish a planting, select a site and cultivars, determine soil requirements, prepare soil, plant, control weeds, mulch, fertilize, water, prune, care for established plants, and select ripe berries for harvest.

Bernadine Strik | Mar 2008 | OSU Extension Catalog

Growing Strawberries in Your Home Garden

Describes various varieties of June-bearing, everbearing, and day-neutral strawberries and when they produce crops. Explains where to plant strawberries and how to rotate a strawberry patch to optimize growth and minimize disease. Discusses the matted-row and hill planting systems and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Covers soil preparation, fertilization, planting, first season's care, care of established plantings, harvest, and pests.

Bernadine Strik | Mar 2013 | OSU Extension Catalog

Growing Blackberries in Your Home Garden

Describes how to grow blackberries in a home garden. Covers types, growth and fruiting cycles; how to establish a planting, select a site and cultivars, determine soil requirements, prepare soil, plant, control weeds, trellis, fertilize, water, prune, care for established plants, and select ripe berries for harvest.

Bernadine Strik | Mar 2008 | OSU Extension Catalog

Latest Resources

"Poke Salad Annie" alive and well in Oregon?

Q: My dog has been sick a few times and I found this plant with berries in my back yard. Trying to identify it but having trouble. Think it is a night shade type but just does not look like examples on internet . Can you help ??  

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Introduction to Olives in Oregon

This webinar is part of the 2019 series of Advanced Training Webinars for Master Gardeners sponsored by Oregon State University Extension. Heather Stoven and Victoria Binning of the OSU Extension Small Farms Program will introduce olives as both an ornamental and production plant. Can you grow them in Oregon? What conditions do they prefer? They will discuss a little of the ...

Heather Stoven, Victoria Binning | Nov 2019 | Video

Gardener's Pen

Oregon Master Gardener Association publishes a newsletter, The Gardener's Pen, twice a year.

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Latest News

Sweeten up summer with strawberries

Growing strawberries isn't difficult if you follow some simple tips.

Kym Pokorny | May 24, 2019 | News Story

A look back on a year of gardening stories

A story about yellowjackets topped the most-popular list.

Kym Pokorny | Jan 12, 2019 | News Story

Know when it’s time to pick pears and apples

Apples ripen on the tree, but pears must be stored first.

Kym Pokorny | Sep 14, 2018 | News Story

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"Poke Salad Annie" alive and well in Oregon?

Q: My dog has been sick a few times and I found this plant with berries in my back yard. Trying to identify it but having trouble. Think it is a night shade type but just does not look like examples on internet . Can you help ??  

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