Nursery and Landscape Plants in Ontario

Production and Maintenance

General

• Production Recommendations for Nursery and Landscape Plants (Publication 383)
• Fruit Production Recommendations (Publication 360)
• Producton Recommendations for Greenhouse Floriculture (Publication 370)
• Currants and Gooseberries (Order No. 98-095)
• Designing and caring for Windbreaks
• Eastern Hemlock
• Elderberries for Home Gardens (Order No. 95-005)
• Fruit Trees in the Home Garden
• Growing Red Raspberries in Ontario (Publication 105)
• Nut Culture in Ontario (Publication 494)
• Planting Habits
• Pruning Ornamentals (Publication 483)
• Pruning Fruit Trees (Order No. 00-005)
• Red Oak
• Sugar Maple
• White Spruce

Soil, Media and Fertility

• Cover Crops
• Drainage
• Drainage Guide for Ontario (Publication 29)
• Drain Problems (Order No. 84-017)
• Gully Erosion Control (Order No. 88-059)
• Mutual Agreement Drains (Order No. 86-064)
• Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K) Soil Testing and Fertilizer Recommendation System in Ontario (Order No. 97-005)
• Planning and Maintenance of an Erosion Control System (Order No. 97-015)
• Soil Fertility Handbook (Publication 611)
• Tile Drainage Outlets (Order No. 90-233)

Irrigation

• Irrigation Scheduling For Fruit Crops (Order No. 90-069)
• Irrigation Water Quality for the Nursery and Landscape

Farm Machinery

• Field Sprayer Calibration (Interactive)

Environment

• Ontario's Cosmetic Pesticde Ban
• Homemade Pesticides
• Freeze Protection Methods for Crops (Order No. 85-116)
• Pesticide Application and Safety
• Pesticide Drift
• Pesticide Safety and Handling
• Precautions With All Pesticides
• Restoring Shorelines with Willows
• Ways to Avoid Pesticide Spills (Order No. 96-025)

Pest Management

• Production Recommendations for Nursery and Landscape Plants (Publication 383)
• Fruit Production Recommendations (Publication 360)
• Producton Recommendations for Greenhouse Floriculture (Publication 370)
• Diseases and Insects of Turfgrass in Ontario (Publication 162)
• Nursery and Landscape Report
• Minor Use Program

Insects

• Asian Long-Horned Beetle-OMNR
• Asian Long-Horned Beetle - CFIA
• Borers in the Landscape
• Brown Spruce Longhorn Beetle - CFIA
• Cedar Leaf Miner PDF - Extension Notes
• Emerald Ash Borer - CFIA
• Insect and Mite Pests of Apple in Ontario (Order No. 92-051)
• Integrated Pest Management in the Nursery
• Japanese Beetles in Nursery and Turf (Order No. 92-105)
• Mite Pests and their Predators in Ontario Orchards (Order No. 95-057)
• Monitoring Insects in the Landscape and Nursery
• Ornamental Plant Pests
• Predatory Insects in Fruit Orchards (Order No. 208)
• Root Weevils
• Scale Insect Pests of Tree Fruits (Order No. 90-120)
• Spruce Galls
• Three Pests of Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis)
• Viburnum Leaf Beetle Pyrrhalta viburni (Paykell) in the Nursery and Landscape

Diseases

• Common Disorders of Broad-leaved Trees (Order No. 02-071)
• Daylily Rust (Order No. 04-089)
• Diplodia Dieback of Pines
• Euonymous Scale, Unaspis euonymi (Comstock), in the Nursery and Landscape
• Juniper Dieback
• Needlecast Diseases of Pine and Spruce
• Peach Leaf Curl (Order No. 83-071)
• Plum Pox Virus (CFIA)
• Sharka (Plum Pox Virus) of Stone Fruit and Ornamental Prunus Species (Order No. 02-001)
• Sudden Oak Death - CFIA
• Sudden Oak Death - U.S.

Weeds

• Guide to Weed Control (Publication 75)
• Newsletter Articles for Weed Management in Specialty Crops
• Newsletter Articles for Weed Management in Nursery
• Newsletter Article Index for Weed Management: Application Technology
• Newletter Article Index for Weed Management: Weed Biology
• Newsletter Article Index for Weed Management: Other Information
• OMAFRA Poisonous Plant Quiz
• Ontario Noxious Weeds
• Ontario Weeds (Publication 505)
• Ontario Weeds - Weed Gallery
• OMAFRA Weed Identification Quiz

Rodents and Deer

• Rodent and Deer Control in Orchards (Order No. 98-023)

Community

• Planning a School Tree Plant (PDF) - Extension Notes

Business

• Budgeting Farm Machinery Costs (Order No. 01-075)
• Getting Started on the Internet (Order No. 98-055)
• Preparing Business Plans (Order No. 08-051)
• Starting a Commercial Nursery in Ontario

Crop Updates, Newsletters and Articles

• Nursery and Landscape Report
• Crop and Pest Updates
  • Subscribe to OMAFRA Podcasts
  • Subscribe to Agriphone Messages
• Links to Other Newsletters Online
• OMAFRA Newsletters
• Newsletter Articles for Weed Management in Specialty Crops
• Newsletter Articles for Weed Management in Nursery
• Horticulture Review (Landscape Ontario's on-line magazine)
• GTI Advisor (Guelph Turfgrass Institute on-line newsletter)
• What's Current in Horticultural Crops

Resources & Services

• Accredited Soil Testing Labs
• Agriculture Development Staff
• Laboratories for Leaf Analysis
• List Servers & Mailgroups
• Pesticide Safety and Handling
• Pest Diagnostic Clinic
• Sources of Crop Inputs
  • Cover Crop Seed Suppliers
  • Plasticulture Suppliers
  • Sources of Agricultural Limestone For Ontario
  • Sources of Landscape Supplies - Ontario
  • Sources of Nursery and Landscape Supplies - Canada
• What's Hot in Horticultural Crops

Stats & Facts

• Nursery Trades Industry Statistics
• Overview Of Canadian Horticultural Industry

Links

• Agroforestry Index Page
• American Nursery and Landscape Association
• Christmas Tree Farmers of Ontario
• OMNR Ontario's Forests
• GTI Advisor
• Landscape Ontario
• Landowner Resource Centre
• Master Gardeners of Ontario
• Massachusetts University - Extension
• Ministry of Environment
• Morton Arboretum
• Ohio State University - Pest Factsheets
• Ontario Horticultural Association
• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources