The following publications cover topics related to Commercial Horticulture. For a complete list of MU Extension publications, visit the main Publications page.
Selecting Landscape Plants: Ornamental Vines
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Enhance your landscape with ornamental vines that provide privacy, soften structures, and add seasonal interest. Learn selection, support, and care tips.
Pruning and Care of Shade Trees
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Yearly pruning during the first few years can help a tree become established and strong. Learn when and how to prune and problems you might encounter.
Low-Maintenance Landscaping
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Create a beautiful, low-maintenance landscape with thoughtful design, proper plant selection, and easy-to-care-for features that suit your space and lifestyle.
Steps in Fertilizing Garden Soil: Vegetables and Annual Flowers
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Learn how to test soil, apply fertilizers, and maintain nutrient levels for healthy vegetable and flower gardens.
Making and Using Compost
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Making compost transforms garden waste into a nutrient-rich soil conditioner, enhancing soil structure and fertility while reducing landfill use.
Growing Azaleas and Rhododendrons
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Discover essential tips for selecting, planting, and caring for azaleas and rhododendrons in Missouri's challenging climate.
Grass Clippings, Compost and Mulch: Questions and Answers
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Yard waste is valuable landscape resource. Visit our site for our Grass Clippings, Compost and Mulch: Questions and Answers resource.
Watermelon Bacterial Fruit Blotch
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Bacterial fruit blotch causes dark green blotches on watermelons, leading to rind rupture and decay; manage with clean seeds and sanitation.
Budding
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Budding is a grafting technique where a single bud is inserted into a plant stock, used to propagate fruit trees and ornamental plants. The best time is fall.
Selecting Landscape Plants: Uncommon Trees for Specimen Plantings
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Check out some uncommon landscape trees that have a good chance for survival in the Missouri climate.
Roses: Selecting and Planting
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Roses are well adapted to many different environmental conditions. They are useful as landscape plants and prized as cut flowers.
Caring for Flooded Lawns
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Once the flood waters have receded and the homes are recovered, it will be time to clean up the yard.
Home Propagation of Houseplants
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Plant pieces cut from a parent plant and rooted to form new plants are called “cuttings.” Use of them is a simple, inexpensive way to multiply houseplants.
Grasses in Shade: Establishing and Maintaining Lawns in Low Light
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Learn how to establish and maintain healthy lawns in shaded areas, including grass selection, tree pruning, and proper lawn care techniques.
Watering and Fertilizing Tomatoes in a High Tunnel
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Proper watering and fertilization are essential for tomatoes in a high tunnel. High tunnels keep out natural rainfall, so timely irrigation is necessary.
Growing Sweet Corn in Missouri
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Sweet corn is a popular summer vegetable crop in Missouri that grows well in a wide range of soils.
Home Fruit Production: Strawberry Cultivars and Their Culture
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This guide offers practical advice on selecting, planting, and maintaining strawberry cultivars suited for Missouri's climate.
Managing Nematodes in Gardens
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Learn how to identify and manage nematodes in your garden with effective strategies to protect plants and improve garden health.
Fresh Market Tomatoes
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Discover essential guidelines for profitable tomato production in Missouri, including site selection, soil improvement, and marketing strategies.
Pollinating Fruit Crops
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Each fruit crop has distinct requirements for pollination. To ensure that fruit sets, the pollination requirement should be evaluated before planting.
Home Fruit Production: Grape Culture
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This publication provides comprehensive guidance on grape cultivation, including cultivar selection, planting, and care practices.
Disease Prevention in Home Vegetable Gardens
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Reduce disease in your garden through prevention methods, including sanitation; cultural, physical and biological practices; staking; and solarization.
Vegetable Harvest and Storage
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Learn how to properly harvest and store various vegetables to ensure optimal quality and shelf life.
Growing Sweet Potatoes in Missouri
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Sweet potatoes are an excellent vegetable crop to include in the field or garden in Missouri.
Home Fruit Production: Grape Training Systems
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Pruning is one of the most neglected practices in home plantings of grapes. Learn more with our Home Fruit Production: Grape Training Systems guide.