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Pest management schedule for peach, nectarine, and apricot trees in Eastern Oregon

This document outlines a suggested management schedule for the most common insect pests and diseases of apple trees in Eastern Oregon.

Cody Copp | Mar 2024 | Educational document Peer reviewed (Gray level)

Home fruit tree care in Eastern Oregon

Fruit trees can thrive in Eastern Oregon, but there are considerations for growing them in our unique climate.

Cody Copp | Mar 2024 | Collection

Home Fruit Tree Care in Eastern Oregon

Watch this video to learn more about pest management, tree care, and pruning fruit trees in Eastern Oregon.

Cody Copp | Mar 2024 | Video

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Growing Blueberries in Your Home Garden

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

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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 | Sep 2020 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Growing Strawberries in Your Home Garden

Here's how to plant strawberries, fertilize them and solve the common problems that plague many gardeners. Learn which type bears fruit when.

Bernadine Strik, Emily Dixon, Amy Jo Detweiler, Erica Chernoh, Nicole Sanchez | Jul 2020 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Growing Raspberries in Your Home Garden

Learn to grow tart, delicious raspberries in your own garden. Choose which type of raspberry to grow, and learn how to plant, prune, fertilize and water your berry patch to keep it healthy and productive.

Bernadine Strik, Amy Jo Detweiler, Nicole Sanchez, Emily Dixon | Jun 2021 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

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Growing Kiwifruit in Your Home Garden

You may know kiwifruit by what you see in the grocery store: a fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with green or golden flesh. Other species of kiwifruit bear bite-sized fruit with smooth, edible skin. Which type you can grow in your home garden depends on your climate. This guide will walk you through all the details on planting, fertilizing, irrigating, pruning and training so you, too, can grow this delicious fruit.

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Sweet Cherry Cultivars for the Fresh Market

Describes dark red and blush sweet cherry cultivars, including harvest timing, color when ripe, suggested pollinizers and rootstocks, size, firmness, yield potential, and other traits. Includes color photo of each cultivar.

Ashley Thompson, Matthew Whiting, Lynn Long | Jan 2021 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

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 | Mar 2020 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Pruning Hazelnut Trees — A Basic Guide

Training is a term applied to trees from planting up to 4-5 years of age, and is used to encourage a strong tree structure capable of supporting heavy crops, and withstanding ice and snow loads.

Jun 2015 | Article

Training and Pruning Your Home Orchard

Learn how to train and prune apple, pear, sweet cherry, sour cherry, peach, prune, plum, apricot, fig, persimmon, walnut, hazelnut and chestnut trees.

Jeff L. Olsen | Aug 2019 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

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Latest News

Early spring is the best time to plant strawberries

Once you’ve decided on the type of strawberry to grow, you’ll want to choose a variety and decide which method to plant them.

Kym Pokorny | Mar 29, 2024 | News story

Late winter to early spring care will help caneberries thrive

Caneberries should be fertilized in the early spring when new growth is starting.

Kym Pokorny | Feb 5, 2024 | News story

Don’t be timid when pruning grapes

Most gardeners don't cut back the vine nearly enough.

Kym Pokorny | Jan 4, 2024 | News story

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