- Author: Richard Smith
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Weed control in cool-season vegetables can be quite challenging. However, there are a number of practices that provide growers with certain advantages:
- Short-season crops such as lettuce and spinach that allow for rapid turnover of the crops (e.g. 30 to 65 days), frequent cultivation (lettuce) and/or complete hand removal of weeds prior to mechanical harvest (clipped spinach and baby lettuce)
- High value of the crops allows for the use of intensive hand-removal of weeds, often prior to seed set
- Small production blocks that allow for careful observation and intensive management
All of these strategies have basically made some of the most troublesome weeds such as field bindweed and yellow...
- Author: Brad Hanson
Sonia Rios, a recently hired UC Cooperative Extension Subtropical Horticulture Advisor in Riverside and San Diego Counties was honored with a Dean's Graduate Medalist award from Fresno State University. Annually, the dean of each college at CSUF presents one Dean's Graduate Medalist award and Sonia was the 2015 recipient from the College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology.
Sonia was advised by Dr. Anil Shrestha at CSUF (who also was honored this year by the University) and...
/span>- Author: Lynn M. Sosnoskie
You've got trouble with a capital "T" that rhymes with "B", which stands for bindweed.
My apologies to Meredith Wilson (I just couldn't pass up the opportunity...). But seriously, if you've got bindweed, you've probably got trouble. Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) is a deep-rooted (and drought-tolerant) perennial vine that has become a significant concern in reduced-tillage, drip-irrigated, processing tomato systems.
Figure 1. Have you got trouble? Field bindweed at the UC Davis research farm.
Field bindweed, a native of Europe and Asia, is a member of the...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Benefits of Hedgerows in Vineyards Workshop
Thursday, June 11, 2015, 8:45 am-12:30 pm
UC Oakville Experimental Station
1380 Oakville Grade Road
Oakville, CA
To register, click HERE.
This workshop will focus on the benefits of hedgerows of native California plants in agricultural landscapes as well as establishment practices for field edge plantings and plant selection.
REGISTRATION
This is a free event but registration is required as space is limited.
CE units available.
Questions? contact Elise Gornish at
/h3>- Contributor: Steven D Wright
- Contributor: Gale Perez
Congratulations to Dr. Anil Shrestha, Professor of Plant Science at California State University, Fresno, who received not one but TWO awards:
- 2015 Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching—the highest faculty honor at Fresno State
- 2014-2015 Outstanding Advisor Award
From the Fresno...