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Sample Costs to Establish a Madarin Orchard (7/05) Late Hanging Navels Mapping Your Orchard New Zealand Citrus Rootstocks Satsumas in New Zealand The Small Fruit Dilemma...

Spring is a time when the grower thinks of replanting and topworking unproductive trees or reworking trees to pollinator varieties. It is also the time when warm weather is starting the weed season. Plants are starting to grow with warmer weather.

April is a transition month from the winter to the summer. Depending on the rainfall, we may be in full irrigation swing or there may still be occasional showers that keep the pumps quiet. Whatever, the irrigation system should be ready to go into action.

The large amount of rain we have been having this season brings good news and potentially bad. The rain leaches out accumulated salts that we have placed in the root system by irrigating during the previous summer and fall.

Earthworms and Soil Productivity - 2000 Soil and Water Management - 2001 Soil pH - 2001 Soil pH Zinc - 2002...

There are 1,800 species of earthworms grouped into five families and distributed all over the world. Some grow as long as 3 feet, while others are only a few tenths of inches. We call them nightcrawlers, field worms, manure worms, red worms and some people just say "yuck.

From rocks come soils. All soils were once part of rock, but with time and various physical and chemical processes of weathering, rock becomes unconsolidated into loose rock particles. It is from these particles that a soil may develop; it is called parent material.

The very fact that avocados can be grown in hard to get to places means that the trees are also in areas that are subject to wildfire damage. Recently several hundred acres of avocado burned in the Fillmore/Santa Paula foothills. The fire was fanned by high winds and low humidity.

Here are some links to frost information, preparing for frost and managing frost damage to trees. Methods of Frost Protection Protecting Avocados from Frost Rehabilitation of Freeze-Damaged Citrus and Avocado Trees A Frost Primer http://ceventura.ucanr.

Mature Orchards Only two general methods of protecting avocado groves have proved satisfactory - heaters and wind machines. A combination of these two also is used.