Alabama Extension reminds its specialty crop producers that the 2025 Southeast U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook is now available. This important resource is a joint effort among Extension specialists and researchers from land-grant universities and other institutions across the Southeast who specialize in vegetable production.
The specialists and researchers represent various disciplines. These include agricultural engineering, entomology, vegetable production, plant pathology, postharvest physiology, soil science and weed science.
The handbook contains information that growers, including those from Alabama, need to manage vegetable crops. Management highlights the varieties to plant, planting dates, fertilizer recommendations, cover crop selection and conservation tillage options, pesticide selection, grafting, fertigation, plasticulture, postharvest handling, alternative pest management tools as well as other topics.
Alabama Extension specialists featured in the handbook include Paulo Gimenez Cremonez, Auburn Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist; Andre da Silva, Extension specialist and associate professor of horticulture at Auburn University; Camila Rodrigues, assistant professor and Extension specialist in Horticulture at Auburn University; and Ed Sikora, professor and Extension plant pathologist in the department of entomology and plant pathology at Auburn University.
Click here to download a PDF of the Southeast U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook.