Resources for Garden Retailers
Home Lawn and Garden Information (Link to Resources)
UMass Extension provides informational resources, programs, and research data directly to Green Industry businesses and professionals, who in turn provide the information to the public via their customers. It is our goal to educate the professional, who in turn can better serve their clients and answer home gardening and landscape questions. Resources include: Soil Tesing (fee), Diagnostics (fee), newsletters, seminars and hotlines and more.
Mass Dept. of Agricultural Resources: Mass Grown and Fresher
Garden Centers and Calendar of Public Events for Agriculture in Massachusetts
List of Garden Centers
Calendar of Events (you can also add an event through this website)
Growing Tips (Printable fact sheets for retail customers)
Short (1-2 pages), easy to read fact sheets in black and white to print, copy and distribute to garden retail customers.
- Print from links below
- Copy
- Fold (accordian style - shown here)
- Give to customers
Let our fact sheets help to answer questions from home gardeners.
A cooperative project by the Massachusetts Flower Growers Association and UMass Extension Greenhouse Crops and Floriculture Program with funding from Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources.
Printable Fact Sheets (pdf)
1 Asian Longhorned Beetle
2 Planting Tomatoes
3 Growing Tomatoes
4 Hydrangeas: Pruning for Blooms
5 Hydrangeas: Color and Fertilizing
6 Watering New Plantings
7 Fall Flowers: Mums and Annuals
8 Fall Planting Trees and Shrubs
9 Fall Plantings: Successful Care
10 Holiday Plant Care Fall and Winter (Amaryllis, Cyclamen, Holiday Cactus, Paperwhites, Poinsettias)
11 Holiday Plant Care Spring (Azalea, Rex Begonia, Spring bulbs, Easter lily, Primrose, Calceolaria, Cineraria)
12 Pruning Shrubs
13 Growing Herbs
14 Easy Herbs
15 Preserving Herbs
16 Starting Seeds Indoors
17 Caring for Seedlings
18 Plan a Vegetable Garden
19 Planting a Vegetable Garden
20 Deer Resistant Plants
21 Perennials, Continuous Color
22 Annuals for Shade
23 Annuals for Sun
24 Colorful Container Gardens
25 Clematis
Contact Tina Smith, UMass Extension for questions or more information about the fact sheets.
Printable Poster
Poster to Encourage Home Gardeners to Buy Locally Grown Tomato Transplants
UMass professor Robert Wick and UMass Extension Specialists Bess Dicklow and Ruth Hazzard are mounting a public relations campaign to encourage home gardeners to buy locally grown tomato transplants. Locally grown transplants are much more likely to be free of serious diseases that tend to remain active in the southern United States. This effort, in addition to lab and field studies, is being funded by a grant to work on late blight of potato and tomato.
Below is a link to a high resolution digital image (pdf) of the 11in x 17in poster that you can have printed at your local print shop. We hope this will be helpful to your business, and the health and well-being of our commercial potato and tomato crops.
Printable, Color
Buy Local Poster (pdf; file size 3.20 mb) (measures 11in x 17in)
