Resources for Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Title | Available As | Summary | Date | ID | Author |
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Japanese Beetle | The Japanese beetle is found throughout Virginia and in most of the Eastern United States. In regions west of the Mississippi it is found in isolated pockets. Japanese beetles were first found in New Jersey in 1916 and have spread from that point since. The Japanese beetle has been well established in Virginia since the early
1970’s. |
Sep 2, 2022 | 2902-1101 (ENTO-514NP) | ||
What Is a Watershed? | This publication defines watersheds, why they are important to everyone, and how people positively and negatively impact them. |
Sep 11, 2023 | 426-041 (SPES-2P) | ||
Rain Garden Plants | A rain garden is a landscaped area specially designed to collect rainfall and storm-water runoff. The plants and soil in the rain garden clean pollutants from the water as it seeps into the ground and evaporates back into the atmosphere. For a rain garden to work, plants must be selected, installed, and maintained properly. |
Jan 2, 2024 | 426-043 (SPES-57P) | ||
Urban Water-Quality Management: Wildlife in the Home Pond Garden | Small home pond gardens support aquatic plants and also attract a variety of wildlife. Turtles, frogs, birds, snakes, lizards, and raccoons as well as many other animals may use these ponds. Most wildlife needs water to survive and will seek out ponds for drinking, bathing, habitat, and in some cases, reproduction. |
Sep 2, 2020 | 426-045 (HORT-126P) | ||
Patriotic Gardens: How to Plant a Red, White and Blue Garden | Jul 9, 2020 | 426-210 (HORT-185) | |||
America's Anniversary Garden: A Statewide Corridor and Entrance Enhancement Program | Jul 9, 2020 | 426-211 (HORT-186P) | |||
Fertilizing Landscape Trees and Shrubs | Maintenance programs should be developed for trees and shrubs in both residential and commercial landscapes. A good maintenance program includes monitoring and controlling insect and disease problems, suppressing weed competition, and making timely applications of water, mulch, and fertilizer. Tree and shrub fertilization is especially important in urban and suburban areas of Virginia where soils have been altered due to construction. These urban soils tend to be heavily compacted, poorly aerated, poorly drained, and low in organic matter. Even where soils have not been affected, fertilization may be needed as part of a maintenance program to increase plant vigor or to improve root or top growth. |
Jul 12, 2021 | 430-018 (HORT-120P) | ||
Trees for Problem Landscape Sites -- Air Pollution | Aug 10, 2020 | 430-022 (HORT-123P) | |||
Getting Started in the Nursery Business: Nursery Production Options | The nursery industry in Virginia has enjoyed an extended period of growth and expansion. Consequently, there is considerable interest in and some potential for new business opportunities in the industry. Another consequence of this period of economic growth is an increase in competition within the industry to supply the growing demand for landscape plants. Those interested in getting into the nursery business are strongly encouraged to invest their time and energy into learning as much as they can about the modern nursery industry, and the many options now available in nursery production, before they invest any money in facilities and operations. |
Apr 27, 2015 | 430-050 (HORT-89P) | ||
A Guide to Successful Pruning: Pruning Deciduous Trees | May 18, 2022 | 430-456 (SPES-403P) | |||
A Guide to Successful Pruning, Pruning Evergreen Trees | May 17, 2022 | 430-457 (SPES-402P) | |||
A Guide to Successful Pruning: Stop Topping Trees! | May 1, 2009 | 430-458 | |||
A Guide to Successful Pruning, Pruning Shrubs | May 1, 2009 | 430-459 | |||
A Guide to Successful Pruning, Shrub Pruning Calendar | Jun 11, 2021 | 430-462 (SPES-323P) | |||
Spring and Summer Lawn Management Considerations for Cool-Season Turfgrasses | May 1, 2009 | 430-532 | |||
Rose Rosette Disease | Rose rosette disease (RRD) is a serious disease problem of cultivated roses, and over the past two decades RRD has become the most important rose disease in North America. RRD is caused by Rose rosette virus (RRV). RRD leads to stunting, decline and death of roses, yet there are no easy, economical or particularly effective management tactics for RRD. Currently, the major rose cultivars available to growers are susceptible to RRD. |
Dec 20, 2023 | 450-620 (SPES-556P) | ||
2024 Spray Bulletin for Commercial Tree Fruit Growers | The guide contains information on pesticides used in orchards, with a seasonal treatment of when and how these materials should be employed. Efficacy information toward major fruit pests as well as beneficial species is included. The guide is black and white, but with a color photograph for the cover. It is spiral bound. |
Jan 25, 2024 | 456-419 (ENTO-577P) | ||
2024/2025 Mid-Atlantic Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations | This guide lists vegetable varieties that are available and are adapted to the mid-Atlantic region, gives an overview of cultural practices, and list chemicals recommended to manage pests, diseases and weeds in vegetable crops. New varieties of vegetables are constantly being developed throughout the world. While all efforts are made to have comprehensive lists, not all varieties that are adapted will be listed. |
Feb 8, 2024 | 456-420 (SPES-586P) | ||
Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center | Oct 5, 2022 | AREC-75NP (AREC-277NP) | |||
Best Management Practices for Boxwood Blight in the Virginia Home Landscape | Boxwood blight is a devastating disease of boxwood that results in defoliation and decline of susceptible boxwood. This best management practices factsheet provides guidelines for home growers of landscape boxwood to avoid introduction of the boxwood blight pathogen into a landscape or, if the disease is already present in a landscape, to manage to disease in the most effective manner and avoid spread of the disease to new locations. |
Dec 19, 2023 | PPWS-29NP (SPES-557NP) | ||
Virginia Boxwood Blight Task Force | To provide leadership in safeguarding and protecting the ornamental horticulture industry,
historical gardens and landscape plantings from boxwood blight. |
Jul 1, 2019 | PPWS-30 | ||
Best Management Practices for Boxwood Blight in Virginia Production Nurseries WITHOUT Boxwood Blight Version 2, September 2016 | This Best Management Practice document is a set of guidelines for home growers of landscape boxwood to avoid introduction of the boxwood blight pathogen into a landscape or, if the disease is already present in a landscape, to manage the disease in the most effective manner and avoid spread of the disease to new locations. |
Jan 5, 2021 | PPWS-33NP (PPWS-86NP) | ||
Best Management Practices for Boxwood Blight for Greenery Producers | Best management practices for boxwood blight (also called “box blight”) for
greenery producers are practices recommended to avoid the introduction and
spread of boxwood blight, caused by the fungus Calonectria
pseudonaviculata (syn. Cylindrocladium pseudonaviculatum). The
recommendations in this document are designed to avoid spread of boxwood
blight within a planting or to new locations when pruned tips are
collected, sold and/or used for holiday greenery1. These recommendations
are relevant to anyone involved in the greenery (“tipping”) industry,
including small and large-scale greenery producers, home growers who sell
boxwood tips, and people who tip-prune boxwood on other people’s property.
Care must be taken at all levels of greenery production to prevent the
spread of the boxwood blight pathogen and avoid economic losses associated
with this disease. |
Jan 6, 2021 | PPWS-39NP (PPWS-95NP) | ||
Best Management Practices for Boxwood Blight for Professionally Managed Landscapes and Public and Historic Gardens in Virginia | Boxwood blight is caused by the fungal pathogen Calonectria pseudonaviculata (syn. Cylindrocladium buxicola). Boxwood blight was first described in the United Kingdom in the mid-1990’s and by 2002 was found in several other European countries and New Zealand. In September 2011 boxwood blight was discovered in North America. Symptoms of the disease include leaf spotting (Fig. 1), elongate, dark cankers on stems (Fig. 2), defoliation,
and dieback (Fig. 3). The primary means by which the disease spreads is the inadvertent introduction of infected boxwood to existing plantings. The pathogen can also spread by spores, which readily adhere to equipment and work clothes, and by microsclerotia, which survive in infested soil and plant debris. This document outlines best management practices for landscapers and property managers to reduce the risk of spreading boxwood blight to landscapes and public and historic gardens, and to manage the disease if it is introduced. |
Feb 1, 2024 | PPWS-49NP (SPES-552NP) | ||
Blackberry Fruit: Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits | Mar 16, 2022 | SPES-366P |