Caring for your Garden
Watering your garden
Fertilizing your garden
Nutrition Deficiency Photo Gallery
- Plant Nutrition Deficiency Database (Florida)
- Essential Nutrients for Plant Growth: Nutrient Functions and Deficiency Symptoms
Compost and Vermicomposting
- Backyard composting, recycling a natural product
- Composting worms for Hawaii
- Mulches for the Home Garden
- Small-scale vermicomposting
- Sustainable and Organic Program at CTAHR
- Vermicompost in Hawaii: Production and Use (Youtube video)
Beneficial Insects
- Beneficial Insectary Plants
- Building Better Gardens: Pollinator Friendly Landscaping in Hawaii (YouTube Video)
- Butterflies in Hawaii (Starr Environmental)
- Gardening/Farming with Honey Bees
- Honey bees (Apis mellifera) (Agroforestry.net)
- Integrated Pest Management Poster (monitoring and action thresholds, pest identification, prevention strategies, control strategies, reduced risk products, beneficial insects and insectary plants)
- Ladybeetles of Hawai'i (poster)
- Meet the Pollinators (Villalobos, presentation)
- Obtaining Seeds and Plants for Conservation, Cover Crops, and Beneficials
- Pollinator Friendly Gardens in Hawaii (Villalobos)
- Selecting Plants for Pollinators: A Regional Guide for Farmers, Land Managers, and Gardeners In the Hawaiian Islands
- Solitary Bees: Build a Bamboo House/Habitat
- UH Honeybee Project
Beneficial Insects, by species
- Braconid Wasps
- Encrytid Wasps
- Hover Flies
- Ichneumonid Wasps
- Lacewings
- Lady Beetles
- Ladybirds of Hawaii (poster)
- Minute Pirate Bugs
- Predatory Mites
- Pteromalid Wasps
- Trichogramma Wasps
Beneficial Insect Flashcards ($5) from the Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program at CTAHR
Pollinators
- Building Better Gardens: Pollinator Friendly Landscaping in Hawaii (YouTube Video)
- Gardening/Farming with Honey Bees
- Honey bees (Apis mellifera) (Agroforestry.net)
- Meet the Pollinators (Villalobos, presentation)
- Pollinator Friendly Gardens in Hawaii (Villalobos, article)
- Selecting Plants for Pollinators: A Regional Guide for Farmers, Land Managers, and Gardeners In the Hawaiian Islands
- Solitary Bees: Build a Bamboo House/Habitat
- UH Honeybee Project
Weed Control
- Before you buy or apply an herbicide . . .
- Chemical weed control options for turfgrasses in Hawaii
- Controlling Non-native Invasive Plants around your home (Brevard Cty, FL)
- Haole Koa and Bamboo (Dr. Joseph DeFrank)
- Invasive Weeds: Herbicide Advice for Homeowners (University of Florida)
- Integrated Pest Management Poster (monitoring and action thresholds, pest identification, prevention strategies, control strategies, reduced risk products, beneficial insects and insectary plants)
- Organic Weed Control for the Home Garden
- Purple nutsedge control in turf and ornamentals
- Weed control options in landscape beds and groundcovers
- Woody plant control for the home, pasture, and forest
Weed identification
Aquaponics/Aquaculture
- Barrel-ponics
- Challenges and Opportunities for Aquaponics in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
- Construction of Automatic Bell Siphons for Backyard Aquaponic Systems
- Economic Comparison of Commercially Available Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers for Hydroponic Lettuce Production
- Growing Hydroponic Cucumbers in a Plastic Trash Container
- Integrated Pest Management Poster (monitoring and action thresholds, pest identification, prevention strategies, control strategies, reduced risk products, beneficial insects and insectary plants)
- On-Farm Food Safety: Aquaponics
- Simple Hydroponic Growing Kit for Short-Term Vegetables
- Small-Scale Lettuce Production with Hydroponics or Aquaponics
- Suspended Net-Pot, Non-Circulating Hydroponic Method for Commercial Production of Leafy, Romaine, and Semi-Head Lettuce
- Urban Gardening Workshop (Oct 2011) ~12MB
Nutrition
Nutrition Deficiency Photo Gallery
- Plant Nutrition Deficiency Database (Florida)
- Essential Nutrients for Plant Growth: Nutrient Functions and Deficiency Symptoms
Propagation (under construction)
Pruning
- Mango: How to prune - Canopy management for mango (YouTube Video)