Strawberries and Caneberries

Thanks to the education group of the California Strawberry Commission, we all have available to us a recording of the October Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. fragariae Zoom call. This includes information on the biology, epidemiology and control of this major pathogen in strawberry.

One can see here from the picture kindly provided by Doug Thomas of Crown Nursery that the cold of late is having an effect.

Thanks to Doug Thomas of Crown Nursery, I'm able to see how the plants are changing as the weather cools up at MacDoel. This is a picture of Monterey close to the field of my original post.

Biodegradable plastic mulches (BDMs) are a promising alternative to polyethylene mulch. The concept is simple. Rather than pulling used plastic mulch from a field and stockpiling or disposing it in a landfill, BDMs are designed to be tilled in at the end of the production cycle.

I've been entertaining a fair number of calls from worried growers, farm managers and others in regards to the warmer than normal temperatures this year at the strawberry plant nurseries up in Northern California.