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Information for Commercial Growers

This site contains links to thousands of pages of information about plants. The best way to view this site is to search for a plant or a keyword. Information is organized as follows:

  Flowers
  Fruit and Nuts
  Nursery/Landscape
  Vegetables

Turfgrass Information
For lawn or turf information, see the UK College of Agriculture Turfgrass Science Web site.

Other Features
A new Web site from Extension Specialist Joe Masabni offers extensive information on herbicides, as well as cultivar evaluations and PowerPoint presentations.

Horticulture Videos, DVDs
The College of Agriculture offers videos and DVDs on a variety of horticulture topics. Contact your local County Extension Office for information on checking out videos and DVDs from the Agricultural Communications Video Library. For abstracts of videos, click here. For abstracts of DVDs, click here. For a list of horticulture videos available for purchase, click here.

The Department of Horticulture Web site is now featuring PowerPoint presentations on several topics. Click here to see a list of available topics.

Newsletters
   
Fruit Facts is a monthly newsletter that offers production information and news for tree fruit, nut tree and small fruit growers.
   Hort Memo is a monthly University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Newsletter for the Kentucky nursery/landscape industry.
   Kentucky Vegetable Growers' Newsletter is a periodic newsletter for the state's vegetable industry.
   Western Kentucky Nursery Crop Update is a monthly newsletter for the nursery industry.
   West Kentucky Vegetable Growers Newsletter, a monthly newsletter during the 2007 growing season, is archived here.

Meetings - Information about upcoming meetings and workshops of interest to commercial growers of fruits, vegetables, bedding plants and woody plants.

You might find additional information of use to you on our Home Horticulture page.

We recommend that you contact your county Extension agent for additional information.

Send mail to cgcass0@uky.edu with questions about this site.

This site was last updated on February 21, 2011

collage of tomatoes, blackberries, poinsettias, and trees in pot-in-pot production system

The Department of Horticulture's research facilities include greenhouses on campus, the UK Horticulture Research Farm in Lexington, the Research and Education Center at Princeton, and the Robinson Substation at Quicksand, as well as a number of on-farm demonstration sites throughout the state.