Vegetable Production and Practices

Gregory E. Welbaum is a professor in the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences at Virginia Tech and has taught both classroom and online vegetable crop classes for over three decades. His successful book Vegetable Production and Practices has been specifically written for classes about vegetable crops based an his personal experiences as a commercial vegetable grower and university researcher. Since 2004, Dr. Welbaum has taught an online class on vegetable seed production. This class has been offered to Virginia Tech students as well as international students as a continuing education course. In addition, Greg has previously taught modules on vegetable seed production for the Seed Production short course offered by Seed Biotechnology Center at the University of California, Davis.

1: Vegetable History, Nomenclature, and Classification 2: Tillage and Cropping Systems 3: Vegetable Seeds and Crop Establishment 4: Fertilization and Mineral Nutrition Requirements for Growing Vegetables 5: Irrigation of Vegetable Crops 6: Mulches 7: Protected Culture 8: Organic and Sustainable Vegetable Production 9: Vegetable Safety 10: Family Cucurbitaceae 11: Family Solanaceae 12: Family Asteraceae 13: Family Poaceae 14: Family Amaryllidaceae, Subfamily Allioideae 15: Family Convolvulaceae 16: Family Brassicaceae 17: Family Amaranthaceae, Subfamily Chenopodiaceae 18: Family Asparagaceae 19: Family Polygonaceae 20: Family Fabaceae 21: Family Apiaceae 22: Family Agaricaceae