crab apples
Image by Sandy Repp

crab apples

Blueberries

blueberries

Raspberries

raspberries

Grapes in the vineyards at Swedish Hill Winery in Seneca Falls, NY (Cornell University Photography).
Image by Robert Barker

Grapes in the vineyards at Swedish Hill Winery in Seneca Falls, NY

Fruit Production

Blueberries:

Bramble Production, Management and Marketing (Raspberries and Blackberries) website by Cornell Fruit contains helpful links for general production, organic production, site management, preparation and other useful information.

Currants and Gooseberries covers legalities of growing, choosing cultivars, different types of currants, and other information for producing currants and gooseberries. 

Elderberries covers planting, fertilizing, weed control, harvest, pruning, choosing cultivars, diseases and insects for elderberries.

Grapes:

Strawberry Production:

Tree Fruit Production (Apple, Cherry, Pear, Peach, etc.) website by Cornell Fruit contains helpful links for general production, organic production and other useful information.

Other Minor Fruits list of under-used trees and shrubs are good for landscaping as well as fruit.

Identifying Apples website will help you identify apple varieties. If you have an unknown apple variety that you want to identify you can compare the key features you see on it with dozens of attributes and variety characteristics listed on this website.

Grafting and Budding:

New York State Berry Growers Association website provides information for commercial growers and ways for you to stay up to date. 

Northern Nut Growers Association website provides basic introduction to the Northern Nut Growers Association and other useful resources. 

NYS Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY 

The NYS Agricultural Experiment Station has been conducting cutting edge research to develop new varieties of fruits, identify best management practices to control disease and pests and build value-added processing facilities.

Fruit Growers' Resources for Soft Fruits and Berries 

Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has extensive resources for berry production. To access resources for soft fruit production, To learn more….

Fruit Growers' Resources for Apples 

Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has extensive resources for tree and soft fruits. To access the resources for tree fruit, click here.

The Grower’s Guide to Organic Apple Production is to help growers produce the highest quality fruit possible, utilizing organic techniques and systems.

Bees

Wild Pollinators of Eastern Apple Orchards focuses on bees as pollinators and the environment necessary to improve their survival.

Last updated July 26, 2019