Strawberries and Caneberries

This one doesn't show too much in strawberry here on the Central Coast, so I was glad when the sample was brought in to me. Complaint was fairly significant numbers of a reddish mite mixed together with a mess of twospotted mite. Are these going to cause a problem was the question.

Most of you know that birds are a real terror in blueberry, so much that netting is mandatory for blueberry growers across the country.

Our meeting is now open for access. This has been a massive undertaking for presenters, organizers and tech people, but here we are, good to go. As I've stated before, videos are on-demand, so can be viewed at your leisure and when your powers of concentration are at their peak.

So this year you don't have to hassle with coming down to my office, partake in less than premium coffee and miss some of your morning work on the farm. The Certified Scout training for LBAM is on youtube this year.

Had a good question today on whether or not this winter, measured in chill hours (that is to say, accumulation of hours of temperatures between 32 and 45 degrees F), has been colder than others. Didn't seem that way, but it does serve to check.