Topics in Subtropics

Trees have a natural capacity to heal after improper pruning or damage to the bark. This healing needs to be encouraged.

A past  blog post discusses how growers can alleviate the damage caused by excessive temperatures.To begin with, assess the damage to your trees. If your trees have been lightly “toasted,” it’s best to leave the trees alone. While the terminal buds may have been damaged — and will most likely not…

A native seed weevil will go after avocado fruit that is down on the ground, either fallen or hanging low on the tree. It is best to remove these fruits so that the weevil numbers don't multiply.

Pedro Sanchez recently died and his death reminds of two great soil text books - his Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics, and Singer and Munns, Soils and Introduction. Both texts integrate the compexity of soils into chapters that are highly readable and show how seemingly different parts of…

Browse the UC ANR publications through the open-access eScholarship library.  Try the link here to the query “organic amendments” that is typed into the question rectangle in the top, right of the page. https://escholarship.org/search?q=organic+amendments&searchType=eScholarship&searchUnitType=series