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Business

• Farm Succession - Do's and Don'ts (Order No. 08-043)
• Getting Started on the Internet (Order No. 98-055)
• Preparing Business Plans (Order No. 08-051)

Farm Machinery

• Field Sprayer Calibration (Interactive)

Home Lawns

• Ontario's Cosmetic Pesticide Ban
• Homemade Pesticides
• Is a Brown Lawn a Dead Lawn? (Order No. 08-029w - web only)
  PDF Format - 185 kb
• Putting Your Lawn to Bed for the Winter (Order No. 08-027w - web only)
  PDF Format - 4 MB
• Lawn Maintenance (Order No. 08-017)
  PDF Format - 5.6 MB
• Lawn Renovation (Order No. 08-021w - web only)
  PDF Format (8 MB)

Irrigation

• How to Prepare for Irrigation During Water Shortages (Order No. 99-023)

Landscape Plants

• Nursery & Landscape Plant Production & IPM (Publication 383)
• Pruning Ornamentals (Publication 483)
  

Pesticide Safety

• Ontario's Cosmetic Pesticde Ban
• Homemade Pesticides
• Pesticide Storage, Handling, and Application (BMP 13)
• Ways to Avoid Pesticide Spills (Order No. 96-025)
• Precautions With All Pesticides

Soil Fertility and Management

• Control of Soil Erosion (Order No. 95-089)
• Cover Crops
• Managing Soil vs. Sand Fields - Comparing Apples and Oranges
• Drainage Guide for Ontario (Publication 29)
• Sod Production
• Soil Erosion - Causes and Effects (Order No. 87-040)
• Soil Fertility Handbook (Publication 611)
• Soil Testing for Turf

Turf Diseases

• Biology and Control of Dollar Spot
• Diseases and Insects of Turfgrass in Ontario (Publication 162)
• Necrotic Ring Spot in Lawns
• Take-All Patch

Turf Insects

• Diseases and Insects of Turfgrass in Ontario (Publication 162)
• Grubs in Lawns (Order No. 08-023W)
• Hairy Chinch Bugs in Lawns (Order No. 08-019)
• Japanese Beetles in Nursery and Turf (Order No. 92-105)
• Turfgrass Scale

Turf IPM

• Turf IPM Manual (Publication 816)

Turf Management

• Debunking Endophytes
• Thatch Control
• Trying New Products
• Turfgrass Management Recommendations (Publication 384)
• Winterizing Turf
• Lawn Establishment (Order No. 08-025W)

Weeds

• Guide to Weed Control (Publication 75)
• OMAFRA Poisonous Plant Quiz
• OMAFRA Weed Identification Quiz
• Ontario Weeds (Publication 505)
• Ontario Weeds - Weed Gallery
• Rough Bluegrass (Order No. 92-054)

Newsletters

• GTI Advisor
• Online Newsletters for Growers
• OMAFRA Newsletters
• Newsletter Articles for Weed Management

Issues

• Horticulture Review (Landscape Ontario's on-line magazine)

Resources and Services

• Accredited Soil Testing Labs
• Crop and Pest Updates
  • Subscribe to OMAFRA Podcasts
  • Subscribe to Agriphone Messages
• Turf Agriphone
• Agriculture Development Branch Staff
• Leaf & Petiole Tissue Analysis Program
• List Servers & Mailgroups
• Agriphone Crop Updates
• Pest Diagnostic Clinic
• OMAFRA Crops - What's Hot?
• Pesticide Application and Safety
• Sources of Crop Inputs
• Frequently Asked Questions

Stats and Facts

• Ontario Horticultural Crops Statistics

Crop Updates

• Crop and Pest Updates
  • Subscribe to OMAFRA Podcasts
  • Subscribe to Agriphone Messages
• What's Hot - Woody Landscape Plants
• National Crop Conditions Report
• What's Hot? - Turfgrass
• Sound Advice - Audio Crop Updates

Links

• Guelph Turfgrass Institute
• Landscape Ontario
• Master Gardeners of Ontario

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