Growing Fruits at Home

Resource Category Topic Type
Pesky Winter Critters [fact sheet]
<br /> Introduction <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> When the snow finally melts in spring, many of us will discover mounds or ridges of soil in our l...
Yard & Garden
Organic & Natural Fertilizers for the Home Ground & Garden [fact sheet]
This Factsheet is to help home gardeners identify organic nutrient sources for use in their gardens. Use the chart to locate specific plant-based nutr...
Agriculture & Gardens, Soil Testing Services, Yard & Garden Agriculture & Gardens
Understanding Your Soil Test Results [fact sheet]
What is a soil test?<br /> <br /> The soil testing lab takes your soil sample, dries it, and runs a small portion of the sample through a series of ...
Agriculture & Gardens, Soil Testing Services Agriculture & Gardens Fact Sheet
Home Fruit Spray Schedule [fact sheet]
Introduction<br /> <br /> Disease and insect control measures suggested in this guide are recommended only for home fruit production. When this prog...
Yard & Garden Agriculture & Gardens
Fruit Injury Types Recognized in Annual New Hampshire Apple Harvest Evaluations [fact sheet]
Arthropod Injury<br /> <br /> Plum Curculio: I see two forms of PC injury at harvest time.<br /> <br /> 1) Typical PC injury is created when the f...
Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Yard & Garden Agriculture & Gardens
Growing Fruit: Strawberries [fact sheet]
Strawberries are an excellent crop for New Hampshire home gardeners. With proper care strawberry beds will produce good crops for three to five years,...
Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Yard & Garden Agriculture & Gardens
Borers in New Hampshire Apple Trees [fact sheet]
Several species of insects bore into New Hampshire apple trees, including roundheaded apple tree borer, flatheaded apple-tree borer, dogwood borer (an...
Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Agriculture & Gardens Agriculture & Gardens
Growing Fruit: Grafting Fruit Trees in the Home Orchard [fact sheet]
Grafting as a means of propagating fruit trees dates back several thousand years or more. Grafting is used for two principal reasons: most fruit trees...
Agriculture & Gardens, Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Yard & Garden, Homesteading tree fruit crops & orchards Fact Sheet
Growing Fruits: Wild Lowbush Blueberries [fact sheet]
Wild lowbush blueberries have always called New Hampshire home. These small, flavor and antioxidant-packed fruits are common in abandoned fields, in s...
Agriculture & Gardens, Fruit & Vegetable Crops Berry Crops Fact Sheet
Growing Fruits: Low-Input Tree Fruits for NH Home Orchards [fact sheet]
Pruning and pest management – these two chores can be discouraging tasks for many home tree fruit growers. Is it possible to grow tree fruits with lim...
Yard & Garden Agriculture & Gardens