UNH Extension Resources for Garden Centers and their Customers

The University of New Hampshire Extension has an extensive library of fact sheets useful to garden centers and their customers.  This page serves to catalog them for ease of access.

Vegetables

• When to Plant Your Vegetable Garden
• Growing Vegetables in Containers
• Growing Garlic
• Fertilizing Vegetable Gardens
• Preparing a Vegetable Garden Site
• Composting
• Pruning Tomatoes
• Growing Sweet Potatoes
• Growing Asparagus
• Growing Sweet Corn
• Growing Tomatoes
• Pruning Tomatoes
• Managing Blossom End Rot

Fruits

• Home Fruit Spray Schedule
• Grafting Fruit Trees
• Growing Lowbush Blueberries
• Growing Highbush Blueberries
• Blueberry Mummy Berry
• Fertilizing Fruit Tree
• Growing Plums, Cherries and Apricots
• Growing Strawberries
• Low Input Fruit Trees for NH Orchards
• Growing Raspberries and Other Brambles
• Care of Mature Backyard Apple Trees
• Blueberry Varieties for NH
• Training and Pruning Young Apple and Pear Trees
• Growing Peaches and Nectarines in the Home Garden
• Pruning and Training Grapes
• Growing Grapes in NH

Ornamental Gardening and Landscaping

• Winter Protection of Roses
• Using Water Efficiently in the Landscape
• Pollinator Plants
• Wildflower Meadow Establishment
• Beetles on Ornamental Plants
• Fertilizing Trees and Shrubs
• Pruning Deciduous Trees
• The Basics of Pruning Trees and Shrubs
• Planting and Mulching Trees and Shrubs
• Groundcovers for New Hampshire
• Pruning Hydrangeas

Lawn Care

• Insect Pests of Home Lawns
• Calculating Lawn Fertilizer Rates
• Green Grass and Clear Water
• Organic Turf

General Gardening

• Garden Mulches
  Purchasing Compost
• Think Before You Buy a Pesticide
• Organic and Natural Fertilizers
• Using Animal Manures and Manure-Based Composts
• Preventing Common Garden Diseases
• Purchasing Top Soil
• Dealing with Woodchuck Damage
• Starting Plants From Seed
• Growing Seedlings Under Lights
• Pesky Winter Critters
• Controlling Wasps, Bees and Hornets
• Very Small Greenhouses for Backyards
• How to Use a Sun Path Chart to Determine Sun Exposure for Greenhouses and Gardens
• Managing Voles
• Using Fertilizers and Potting Soil to Grow Plants
• Hydroponics at Home

UNH Services

• How to Get Best Results from the UNH Extension Infoline
• Insect Identification Services Submission Form
• Plant Diseases and Diagnostics Submission Form
• Soil Testing Home Grounds and Garden Submission Form

Livestock and Pastures

• Housing and Space Guidelines for Livestock
• Raising Broilers
• Brooding and Caring for Chicks
• Poultry Health & Management for the Small Flock
• Producing Your Own Eggs
• The Good Neighbor To Keeping Horses
• Raising Turkeys
• Internal Parasites in Chickens
• Improving Pastures and Hayfields
• Pasture Production with Selected Forage Species