Amanda Borden presented to the Autauga County Master Gardeners meeting today on “Loving Your Vegetable Garden.” Here are her slides.
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Vegetable Gardening Sources
ACES:
The Alabama vegetable gardener (ANR-0479)
Backyard tomato production (ANR-302)
Basics of vegetable crop irrigation (ANR-1169)
Blossom-end rot in tomatoes: Causes and prevention (ANR-1059)
Crop rotation: An essential part of planning a home garden (ANR-1254)
Foliar diseases of tomatoes (ANR-71)
Garden bugs: Insect pest management in the home vegetable garden (ANR-1045)
How to properly prune your tomatoes (Fontenot, LSU Ag Center)
Identifying caterpillars in field, forage, and horticultural crops (ANR-1121)
Insecticides for organic commercial & backyard vegetable production (ANR-1428)
Keys to selecting and producing quality vegetable transplants (ANR-1423)
Planting guide for home gardening in Alabama (ANR-0063)
Pruning fresh-market tomatoes (ANR-1060)
Raised bed gardening (ANR-1345)
Soil solarization for control of soil borne diseases, insects, and weeds (ANR-1213)
Soil temperature conditions for vegetable seed germination (ANR-1061)
Tomato disease identification (ANR-895)
Tomato insect management guide for Alabama (ANR-1191)
Tomato varieties: Growth habit and disease resistance (Glover & East)
Trap crops for managing insect pests (ANR-1430)
Virus diseases of tomato (ANR-836)
Wilt diseases of tomatoes (ANR-0797)
Worms on tomatoes (Smith, Alabama IPM Communicator)
University of Georgia Cooperative Extension:
Conserving water in the vegetable garden (Circular 964)
Growing vegetables organically (Bulletin 1011)
Insect identification guide for Southeastern landscapes (Bulletin 1409)
Mulching vegetables (Circular 984)
Trap cropping for small-market vegetable growers (Circular 1118)
Troubleshooting vegetable production problems in the Southeast (Circular 1054)
Using cover crops in the home garden (Circular 1057)
Vegetable garden calendar (Circular 943)
Others:
Cover crops for the Southeast https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/60100500/SlideSets/SS01.pdf
Tomato diseases and disorders (Iowa State University Extension & Outreach, PD 54)
Bradley, Fern Marshall. Rodale’s vegetable garden problem solver: The best and latest advice for beating pests, diseases, and weeds and staying a step ahead of trouble in the garden. New York: Rodale, 2007.
Cranshaw, Whitney. Garden insects of North America: The ultimate guide to backyard bugs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Ellis, Barbara W. & Fern Marshall Bradley (eds). The organic gardener’s handbook of natural insect and disease control: A complete problem-solving guide to keeping your garden and yard healthy without chemicals. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1996.
Hylton, William H. (ed) The Rodale herb book: How to use, grow, and buy nature’s miracle plants. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 1974.
Kemble, J.M, (ed), Southeastern Vegetable Extension Workers Group. Southeastern U.S. 2019 Vegetable Crop Handbook. Available for free download from https://www.growingproduce.com/SoutheasternVegetableCropHandbook
Reeves, Walter, & Felder Rushing. Guide to Alabama vegetable gardening. Franklin, TN: Cool Springs Press, 2007.
Wallace, Ira. Vegetable gardening in the Southeast. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2013.
