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Hobby Greenhouse Design Notes

Fact Sheet

Sep 1978

Hobby greenhouses provide year-round enjoyment for many gardeners and can be a useful investment for families that wish to raise their own flowers, ornamental plants, or garden vegetables. This resource describes various styles, shapes, and sizes of greenhouses, and their degree of durability. NOTE: blueprints are no longer available and price estimates are outdated.

Choosing the Right Tree-Planting Contractor for Your Family Forest

OSU Extension Catalog

May 2018

Replanting after a timber harvest? Tree planting is expensive, you want to choose the right tree planting contractor from the start. Learn what questions to ask potential contractors.

By Stephen Fitzgerald

Making Gardening Easier: Adapting Garden Tools to Overcome Physical Challenges

OSU Extension Catalog

Jun 1992

Offers gardening strategies for disabled people.

Common Insect Pests and Diseases of Sitka Spruce on the Oregon Coast

OSU Extension Catalog

Jan 2015

Sitka spruce is among the world's fast-growing trees and the largest of the world's spruces. It's a valuable commercial timber. Its range extends from Alaska to northern California, but it faces unique problems along the Oregon Coast. This publication explores some of the insects and diseases that confront the tree in Oregon.

By Dave Shaw

Making Gardening Easier: Gardening with Limited Range of Motion

OSU Extension Catalog

Jun 1992

Provides gardening techniques for people with limited range of motion.

Pest Scene Investigator

OSU Extension Catalog

Feb 2017

This curriculum is a resource for Extension foresters, educators, natural resource professionals, landowners, and others wishing to increase their ability to assess and mitigate forest health situations. This curriculum includes an Instructor’s Guide for those leading Pest Scene Investigator training sessions and chapters for participants that provide information and pictures that explain important strategies and techniques for detecting problems affecting forests.

Propagation of Plants from Specialized Structures

OSU Extension Catalog

Sep 2010

This publication explains the various types of specialized plant structures that can be used to grow new plants. Individual reproduction requirements and options are detailed, and accompanying images are labeled to identify vegetative parts.

Making Gardening Easier: Adaptive Gardening Techniques for the Visually Impaired

OSU Extension Catalog

Jun 1992

Suggests gardening strategies for people with visual impairments.

4-H Food and Fun Nutrition Activity Curriculum

OSU Extension Catalog

Nov 2019

This set of 14+ hands-on nutrition activities will keep kids of all ages engaged in learning about the food they eat and its effects on their bodies. Pick and choose from a variety of lessons on meal preparation, knife skills, nutrition labels, portion size, digestion, hydration and more. Round out lessons with insightful questions, or pair activities with cooking lessons and a selection of healthy recipes.

By Carolyn Ashton

Making Gardening Easier: Gardening Hints for People with Arthritis

OSU Extension Catalog

Jun 1992

Suggests gardening strategies for people with arthritis.

The Hidden Threat In Firewood: Invasive Forest Pests

OSU Extension Catalog

Mar 2016

Invasive forest pests are being transported throughout the continent in untreated firewood. Examples of these non-native threats that can occur in firewood include the emerald ash borer, Asian longhorned beetle, Sirex woodwasp, sudden oak death, oak wilt, and pitch canker, all of which can survive months in firewood. The purpose of this publication is to alert Oregonians to the ...

By Dave Shaw, Amy Grotta

Making Gardening Easier: Gardening Strategies for People with Heart and Lung Problems

OSU Extension Catalog

Jun 1992

Suggests gardening techniques for people with heart and lung problems.

Making Gardening Easier: Gardening Adaptations for People with Gripping and Lifting Problems

OSU Extension Catalog

Jun 1992

Suggests gardening strategies for people with gripping and lifting problems.

Making Gardening Easier: Gardening Ideas for Children with Special Needs

OSU Extension Catalog

Jun 1992

Suggests ideas for gardening programs for children with special needs.

Saving Eden Creek: A Play About People and Forests

OSU Extension Catalog

Sep 2004

This play is designed to explore what we value about forests. Target audiences are adults and high-school youth; can be adapted for children. Click the "view it now" button to view or download the 40-page script, which includes 11 scenes and suggestions for staging and costuming. The supplemental file below is a theater program that also serves as a discussion guide and includes references to further sources of information.

By Janean Creighton

WAVE Sport Nutrition Curriculum

OSU Extension Catalog

Sep 2018

The WAVE Sport Nutrition Curriculum uses youth's interest in sports to teach them about healthy eating and hydration to fuel a healthy, active body for life. This knowledge helps athletes manage body weight and avoid unwanted weight gain in adulthood. Although the curriculum was pilot-tested with high school soccer players, the content is applicable to all active adolescents and ...

By Siew Sun Wong

Making Gardening Easier: Master Gardeners Promote Therapy Through Horticulture

OSU Extension Catalog

Jun 1992

Discusses benefits of horticultural therapy for people with special needs and practices used by master gardeners to promote horticultural therapy.

GROWING

Newsletter

GROWING is a joint publication by Linn and Benton County OSU Extension services, and is published by the Albany Democrat Herald. GROWING is published every other month (January, March, May, July, September, and November).