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A. Many gardeners end up with seeds that they did not have room to plant at the end of a growing season. The seeds ability to grow, to germinate, varies upon the type of seed and how it was stored. If you have inherited these, you may not know under what conditions they were kept.
This makes them pre-adapted to survive in cultivated land. Many species of pest slug are found throughout the world, but the field slug, Deroceras reticulatum, (Figure 1) is undoubtedly the most important pest species world-wide.
Refers to holdings which fulfil one or more of these conditions: Minimum 1 decare with fruit trees, 1 decare of black currant, 1 decare of strawberry, 1 decare of raspberry, 1 decare of vegetables (field grown) or 300 m² used as greenhouses.
, a predominant agricultural country, has a new trend has been emerging in the last two decades with the cultivation of new or non-traditional products such as vegetables and fruits: cabbage, cucumber, celery, carrot, onion, lettuce and tropical fruit concentrated juice.
Most everyone knows that irrigated potato acreage has been expanding in North Dakota, but did you know it is also expanding regionally? Irrigated potato production has increased significantly in southern Manitoba, northwestern Minnesota and Saskatchewan during the last 6 years.
WWelcome to this first edition of PIN for 2002. Childhood obesity has been of increasing concern for many of our member countries over the last few years.
Home gardeners and commercial vegetable growers in the coastal region of Texas growing greens (mustard greens, turnip greens, collard greens, Chinese cabbage, bok choy), have increasingly been experiencing problems with a leaf-feeding insect. This pest has been identified as Microtheca ochroloma