Course: SLF 160 Plant Propagation

Reading & Audio Visual

Readings: Pest Management
Readings: Pest Management

These readings introduce an assortment of disease and insect problems, as well as their solutions, that are unique to propagation environments.

Greenhouse Insect Management
by Ric Bessin, Lee H. Townsend, and Robert G. Anderson © University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service

The warm, humid conditions and abundant food in a greenhouse provide an excellent, stable environment for pest development. For these reasons, pest situations often develop in this indoor environment more rapidly and with greater severity than outdoors. Pest problems can be chronic unless recognized and corrected.

Spring Greenhouse Bedding Plants
by Raymond A. Cloyd, et al, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service

This publication is a practical guide to managing these problems in spring green house bedding plants. Environmental conditions in the greenhouse promote problems and require solutions different from those of the field.

Preventing Seedling Diseases in the Greenhouse
by Daniel S. Egel, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service

Diseases that are likely to affect vegetable transplant production fall into two types: damping-off diseases caused by soilborne fungi and transplant diseases usually associated with fungi or bacteria which survive with seed or plant residue. This bulletin briefly describes both types of diseases and appropriate measures for their control.