Fruits
A resource for people who wish to produce fruit on a small scale (one acre or less) and who are not legally licensed to use pesticides.
A multidisciplinary publication, PSU College of Ag Sciences, which is published monthly for the whole year.
This website features Penn State research, teaching, and extension that supports organic agriculture and food systems.
The purpose of this web site is to give commercial wine growers in Pennsylvania and the non-western states access to current and relevant viticulture news and information that will allow them to grow high quality wine grapes.
Plum pox virus (PPV) was discovered for the first time in North America in 1999 in a peach orchard in Adams County, Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, peach, plum, nectarine, and apricot stone fruit and native and ornamental Prunus are susceptible to PPV, Strain D. In 2007 to 2009 analyses of PPV survey data showed that all quarantined areas met the three-year requirement of no new positives.
Backyard gardeners and commercial growers alike will find publications and links to wide-ranging topics from growing small fruits in gardens to large-scale production.
Provides commercial fruit growers, extension educators, consultants, and others with information on fruit culture; orchard nutrition; spraying; pesticides; storage of tree fruit crops; and control of weeds, insects, diseases (including sharka, or plum pox virus), and mice.
Information about the production and pruning of tree fruits.
News, fact sheets, and production guides for vegetable and small fruit production.
The purpose of this web site is to give commercial wine growers in Pennsylvania and the non-western states access to current and relevant viticulture news and information that will allow them to grow high quality wine grapes.
