Department of Horticulture

Indigo Rose tomato featured in photo show "A Year in the Willamette Valley"

OSU Vegetable Breeding Program's Indigo Rose tomato proves that vegetables can be beautiful as well as healthy.

Our students work on solving real world problems through a combination of coursework, projects, and field-based problem solving.

Research in a Nutshell

Plant breeder and professor Shawn Mehlenbacher explains how research from OSU saved the Oregon hazelnut industry.

Grow healthy food and essential plants, design and create sustainable landscapes, and discover how plants improve people’s lives and livelihoods in the Department of Horticulture.

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Sustainable Food and Farming »

Our food and farming programs solve problems and create opportunities for farmers and horticultural industries in Oregon and the nation.

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Ecological and Environmental Landscapes »

Our programs in environmental management of natural and built environments combine horticultural, restoration, and social sciences to enhance lives and livelihoods.

News

Samurai wasps battle invasive stink bugs in Oregon (Oregonian)

The economic damage to commercial crops in Oregon hasn’t yet been determined, but is substantial in other parts of the country, said David Lowenstein, an Oregon State University Extension ...

A long goodbye for Oregon horticulturalist (Good Fruit Grower)

Thursday’s preharvest cherry tour, held every year in the Columbia Gorge areas of Washington and Oregon, concluded with a farewell celebration to Lynn Long, the horticulturist who ...

Freeze damage shows up in Washington, Oregon blackberries (Capital Press)

Chad Finn, a berry breeder with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service at Oregon State University, said freeze damage was spotty. Berry test plots in Corvallis and at OSU’s North Willamette ...

DIY contraption catches fruit flies (Statesman Journal)

Spring is the time to start looking for fruit flies by trapping them. Oregon State University entomologists describe the tiny spotted wing drosophila as similar to other small fruit flies ...

EM 9165, Nutrient Management for Sustainable Vegetable Cropping Systems in Western Oregon

New. This publication reflects over 30 years of vegetable production research conducted in the Willamette Valley. It is divided into three main sections: sustainable soil health; soil testing and...