With all of the recent rain and plenty of green and ripe fruit we need to be on the lookout for diseases.
Posts by Jeff Cook
Row covers can be used to accomplish a few different things in strawberry plasticulture. For us in Georgia, they are best suited for protecting blooms and small fruit from frost as we near our first harvest dates.
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Spring is just around the corner so we need to be thinking about our strawberry fertility programs. Now is a great time to get a tissue sample. This will give you a baseline and let you know if your pre-plant fertilizer has run out. It also allows you to check…
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Anthracnose fruit rot disease, caused by fungal Colletotrichum species, is one of the most significant disease problems of commercial strawberry production in Georgia and the Southeast. Resistance to site specific fungicides could result in control failures if proper resistance management strategies are not used.
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Scouting for Two-Spotted Spider Mites is critical early in the strawberry season. Managing this pest along with diseases will help plants be more productive once we move to spring harvest season.
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If you didn’t never got a trophy, plaque or certificate growing up we are going to take care of you this growing season.
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Because of the warm February temperatures our strawberry crop was advancing fast. That is why most of it is under covers as I type this post.
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I know the groundhog said that we will have an early spring but we still have frost and freezes in a normal Georgia spring. Go ahead and get the row covers ready because it looks like we may have a roller coaster ride ahead of us. In middle Georgia we…
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Temperatures have been up and down for the southeast but it is still a little too early to begin injecting Nitrogen in most areas of Georgia. The exception would be if you are growing strawberries in the lower coastal plain. One thing that we all need to be considering is…
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