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Beware of Boxwood Blight!

This concise publication gives useful information for homeowners, master gardeners, and professional landscapers about the boxwood blight disease: its symptoms, sanitation measures when it is discovered on a property, and preventive measures.

Cassie Bouska, Jay W. Pscheidt | Mar 2020 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

An Educator's Guide to Vegetable Gardening

This publication is a primer on vegetable gardening written specifically for educators, including those who use gardens as part of a nutrition education curriculum. It outlines a full-circle approach to educational ...

Weston Miller, Beret Halverson, Gail Langellotto | Sep 2019 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

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)

Tree Protection on Construction and Development Sites

This publication is a guide for protecting, conserving, selecting, maintaining, removing, and replacing trees on development sites in the Pacific Northwest.

Mar 2023 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Controlling Root and Crown Diseases of Small Grain Cereals

This publication describes practices to manage and minimize losses from root and crown diseases of wheat and barley throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Richard Smiley, Timothy Paulitz, Juliet Marshall | Nov 2020 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

What's Wrong with my Potato Tubers? Diagnosing Tuber Abnormalities in Western Oregon and Washington

Describes and illustrates (color photos) tuber damage caused by insect pests, plant diseases, and physiological disorders.

Lane Selman, Nick Andrews, Alexandra Stone, Al Mosley | Jul 2021 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Corn Smuts

Two types of smut attack corn in the Pacific Northwest: common smut and head smut. This publication provides descriptions of symptoms and the disease cycle, and management strategies (which differ considerably between...

S. Krishna Mohan, Phil Hamm, George Clough, Lindsey J. du Toit | Jul 2021 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Forest Health Fact Sheet: Diseases and Insect Pests of Pacific Madrone

Discusses three major types of madrone diseases--foliage, branch dieback and trunk canker, and root--and ways to minimize and manage. Discusses insect pests of madrone: fall webworm, western tent caterpillar, aphids, and leaf miners. Color photos. Sources of further information.

Max Bennett, David C. Shaw | Mar 2023 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Forest Health Fact Sheet: Sudden Oak Death (Phytophthora ramorum)

Gives basic facts about a serious plant disease called Sudden Oak Death, caused by the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum. Describes risk of disease to forest health and to commercial nursery industry. Shows disease ...

David C. Shaw | Mar 2023 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)