Dear Friends, Last week we had a demonstration day at our Research Institute, PPO Lisse, www.ppo,wur.nl There was for me an interested item. They had new indications about spreading of Virus. Via a vector living in the soil. From…
Category: Nematode
Organic approach
The NYTimes article about Harvard’s organic approach is useful, although necessarily general for newspaper purposes. I have been doing a lot of internet research over the past few years, and it seems clear that science-based knowledge about the organic aspects…
Bulb Fly photos
Keith’s reference to bulb flies on Google brought me to check: http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=carpenter%20bees&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi And, similar image searches for “Daffodil virus” or “Daffodil basal rot” or “Daffodil stem nematode” are all much more enlightening than the single color pics in the ADS…
daffodil problem
This isn’t something I would normally advertise, but I’ve got something going on with a few of my daffs. It’s not nematode, but can’t figure out what it is. I’ve read thru the Pests and Diseases book and it could…
Soil fumigants and microorganisms
1. The use of a cover crop, mustard or other, to fumigate soil is an interesting proposition. However, I would want to be sure that the treatment did not destroy or suppress beneficial organisms along with the bad guys. For…
natural soil fumigants from plants
Keith Kridler Mt. Pleasant, Texas One of Texas A&M graduates that is now a plant pathologist for the state is saying that their research is looking good for using some plants tilled under to replace methyl bromide as a soil…