CCE Contacts

CCE of Suffolk County
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/

CCE of Suffolk Country Agriculture Page
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/Programs/AGhome.htm

Staff at Griffing Ave.
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/Staff/staff.htm

Staff at Long Island Horticulture Research and Extension Center
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/department/facilities/lihrec/staff.html

CCE of Nassau County
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/nassau/

 

Industry Organizations

NYS Nursery Landscape Association
http://www.nysnla.com

New England Nursery Association
http://www.nensyassn.org/

Nassau/Suffolk Landscape Gardeners Association
http://www.nslga.org/

American Nursery & Landscape Association
www.anla.org

 

Soil Health and Diagnostics

Cornell Soil Health
http://soilhealth.cals.cornell.edu/

Soil Health Assessment and Management: The Concepts
http://www.css.cornell.edu/extension/WCU/Vol16No22006Mar-Apr.pdf

Something to Grow On: An online soil fertility series
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/department/faculty/good/growon/index.html

Nutrient Management in Nursery and Floriculture—UC Davis
http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/pdf/8221.pdf

NRCS Soils Website
http://soils.usda.gov/

Nitrogen and the Environment
http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/3240/2/Nitrogen+and+the+Environment.pdf  OR
http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/3240

Diagnostic Checklist For Plant Samples
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/HortFactSheets/factsheets/Diagnostic%20Checklist%20For%20Plant%20Samples.pdf

Soil Nutrient Test Instructions
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/diagnostic-forms/soiltest.pdf

Soil pH Data Form For Commercial Growers
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/diagnostic-forms/soilcommercialgrowers.pdf

Soil pH Data Form For Commercial Horticulture Services
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/diagnostic-forms/soilcommercialhort.pdf

Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic of Cornell’s Department of Plant Pathology
http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/Default.htm

Diagnostic Sheet

 

Cultural Practices

Cornell Guide for Planting and Maintaining Trees and Shrubs
http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/3572/2/The+Cornell+Guide+for+Planting+and+Maintaining+Trees+and+Shrubs.pdf

Pruning: An Illustrated Guide
http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/3573/2/Pruning+-+An+Illustrated+Guide+to+Pruning+Ornamental+Trees+and+Shrubs.pdf

Livable Landscape Design
http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/2648/2/Livable+Landscape+Design.pdf

Dealing with Deer
http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/factsheets/deerdef/index.html

WVU Plant pH Preferences
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/hortcult/homegard/pHpref.pdf

Fall Transplant Hazard List
http://wefindplants.com/pages/FallHazard.html

Hedges: A Purdue Cooperative Extension Publication
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/HO-27.pdf

 

Business Management

Cornell Horticultural Business Management and Marketing Program
http://hortmgt.aem.cornell.edu/

Cornell Small Farms Home
http://www.cfap.org/afs_temp3.cfm?topicID=398

NY FarmNet
http://www.nyfarmnet.org/

University of Tennesee Horticultural Business Information Network
http://www.utextension.utk.edu/hbin/HBIN-Nursery%20Firms.htm

 

Plant Material

L.I. Horticulture Society Gold Medal Plants
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/Ag/gmp/Gold%20Medal%20Plant%20Awards.htm

All-Star Groundcovers
http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Extension/Woodys/CUGroundCoverSite/GroundcoverMain.html

Herbaceous Perennials from the Test Plots at Bluegrass Lane
http://aggiehorticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/Cornell_Herbaceous/

National Wildlife Federation’s Top Ten Native Plants of the Northeast
http://www.nwf.org/backyard/northeast.cfm

NRCS Plants Database
http://plants.usda.gov/

Recommended Urban Trees
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/uhi/outreach/recurbtree/index.html

Deciduous Woody Groundcovers
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/uhi/outreach/pdfs/dwgc.pdf

Visual Similarity and Biological Diversity: Street Tree Selection and Design
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/uhi/outreach/pdfs/visually_compatible_trees.pdf

Cornell’s Invasive Plants Program
http://www.invasiveplants.net/

Invasive Plants of the Eastern U.S.
http://www.invasive.org/eastern/

UConn Plant Database
http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/index.html

Power Trees
http://www.powertrees.com/

 

Disease Management

Christmas Tree Disease Factsheets
http://www.plantpath.cornell.edu/trees/TreePests.html

NCSU Plant Disease Information Notes
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/notes/Ornamental/ornamental_contents.html

VA Cooperative Extension Plant Disease Factsheets
http://www.ext.vt.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Docs.woa/wa/getcat?cat=ir-ln-pd

MSUcares Ornamental and Tree Diseases
http://msucares.com/lawn/tree_diseases/index.html

 

Insect Management

Pheromone Traps for Insect Pest Management
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/ipm/pherotrp.html

University of KY complete list of entomology factsheets
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/efhtmlst.htm

NAPPO Phytosanitary Alert System (Pest Alerts)
http://www.pestalert.org/index.cfm?NAPPOLanguagePref='English'

 

Weed Management

Cornell Weed Ecology Lab
http://www.css.cornell.edu/WeedEco/

WeedFacts
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/department/faculty/weston/weedfacts/index.html

Weeds of the Northeast
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/extension/weeds/weedne.html

 

Agencies

L.I. Farm Bureau
http://lifb.com/

NYS Ag and Markets Division of Plant Industry
http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/PI/PIHome.html

DEC Pesticide Program
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dshm/pesticid/pesticid.htm

DEC Currently Registered Pesticides
http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/27354.htm

DEC Reduced Risk Pesticides and Biopesticides
http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/8862.html

NY NRCS
http://www.ny.nrcs.usda.gov/

EPA Permitted Inert Ingredients
http://www.epa.gov/opprd001/inerts/lists.html

 

CCE Publications & Resources

L.I. Horticultural Research and Extension Center
http://www.longislandhort.cornell.edu/

Cornell Guidelines for Pest Management:
http://ipmguidelines.org/

Pest Management Education Program (PMEP)
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/

Recertification Courses and Sample Lawn Care Contract
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/certification/index.html

Urban Horticulture Institute
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/uhi/

Cornell University Dept. of Horticulture
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/

CCE Horticulture Leaflets Online
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/HortFactSheets/HFSDirectory.htm

Updated Growing Degree Days and Evapotranspiration Rates
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/HortFactSheets/gdd.htm

CCE Nassau Co. Horticulture Webpage
http://www.ccenassau.org/

Branching Out
http://branchingout.cornell.edu/BranchingOutHome.html

Emergency Preparedness Resources for NYS
http://emergencypreparedness.cce.cornell.edu/

Post-Hurricane Considerations for the Commercial Nursery
http://emergencypreparedness.cce.cornell.edu/images/UserFiles/Commercial%20Nursery%20Considerations.pdf

Connecticut Ag Experiment Station Plant Pest Handbook
http://www.caes.state.ct.us/PlantPestHandbookFiles/pphIntroductory/pphfront.htm

NCSU Nursery Crop Science
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/nursery/

 

IPM & Organics

IR-4 Biopesticides and Organics Database
www.ir4.rutgers.edu/Biopesticides/LabelDatabase/index.cfm

DEC Reduced Risk Pesticides and Biopesticides
http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/8862.html

EPA 4A List of Inert Ingredients for Minimum Risk Pesticides
http://www.epa.gov/opprd001/inerts/inerts_list4Aname.pdf

EPA 25b List of Minimum Risk Active Ingredients
http://www.epa.gov/oppbppd1/biopesticides/regtools/25b_list.htm

NYS IPM for Nursery and Greenhouse
http://nysipm.cornell.edu/nursery_ghouse/default.asp

Northeast IPM Center
http://northeastipm.org/

An IPM Primer
http://neipmc.org/whatisprimer.cfm

What is IPM?
http://paipm.cas.psu.edu/default.htm

PA IMP Pest Problem Solver
http://paipm.cas.psu.edu/329.htm

Radcliffe’s IPM World Textbook
http://ipmworld.umn.edu/

Great Lakes IPM—Supplies and Equipment
http://www.greatlakesipm.com/

Sustainable Small-Scale Nursery Production
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/nursery.html

Lawn Care Without Pesticides (Big pdf file)
http://nysipm.cornell.edu/publications/lawn_care/files/Lawn_Care_without_Pesticides.pdf

Scouting the Container Nursery
http://woodypest.ifas.ufl.edu/scouting.htm

 

EspañolPenn State Extension Emerald Ash Borer Fact Sheet
http://www.entm.purdue.edu/EAB/espanol/index.shtml