Information below focuses on outdoor bedding plant production.  This is an area in which there is little published information, but, here at the University of Minnesota, we are building a body of information to help growers from Miami to Seattle!  We will be adding information here shortly.

Rooting:
PGRs:  Control your quality (Heins and Pilon, 2014).
​Grower 101:  Rooting hormones (Cerveny and Gibson, 2005)
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Weed Control:
A review of weed control practices in landscape planting beds:  Part I - Nonchemical weed control methods. (Marble et al., 2015. Hortscience, 50(6): 851-856.).
A review of weed control practices in landscape planting beds:  Part II - Chemical weed control methods.  (Marble et al., 2015. HortScience, 50(6): 857-862.).
Alternatives to herbicides (Derr, Virginia Tech.).
Weed control and phytotoxicity of selected herbicides for container production. (Case and Mathers).