Texas A&M Forest Service

This website has a great deal of information on how to identify a tree, how trees grow, and much much more.

Texas A&M Agrilife Extension – Fruit and Nut Fact Sheets

This website has a great deal of pdf publications available to the public at no cost.  Information is available from apples to walnuts and includes publications on pecans, grapes, and peaches.

 

• Texas Tree Selector
• Texas Oak Wilt Information
• Ball Moss Removal

 

Fruit and Nut Trees

• Homeowners Guide to Pests of Peaches, Plums and Pecans (pdf)
• Peach Production in Texas (pdf)
• Fruit & Nut Varieties for Kerr County (pdf)
• Native Pecans
• Evaluating Pecan Problems
• Controlling the Pecan Weevil
• Commercial Pecans-Controlling Rosette, Diseases & Zinc Deficiency
• Fall Webworm

 Pruning

• Proper Pruning Techniques
• Training & Pruning Fruit Trees
• 10 Pruning Commandments (pdf)

 

Additional publications and information can be found by visiting the online Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service Bookstore.  You can type in the topics that you are looking for in the search box.

*NOTE: Publications from the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service  are copyrighted. You may download it for your personal, noncommercial use only. Any other use (including but not limited to any commercial use, making multiple copies, displaying publicly, placing on a web page, or redistributing) requires express written permission from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. By downloading this document, you agree to all of the above. To request written permission, please contact:

Holly Jarvis, Ph.D.
2112 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2112
979-458-5911
hollydjarvis@tamu.edu