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How to Acidify Your Soil
Blueberries for example require lower soil pH, or acidity, than is required by crops such as raspberries, corn, forage grass and vegetables. Typically, highbush blueberries must have soil pH between 4.5 and 5.5. If your soil test shows a higher pH, what can be done to decrease it?
Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD)
First found in BC in 2009, SWD is now distributed over all fruit production areas of the Fraser Valley and the BC Interior. Unlike our regular fruit fly which only infests fallen, over-ripe or decaying fruit, SWD lays eggs in harvestable fruit while still on the bush.
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Insectaries & Cover Crops
It is very important in sustainable agriculture to keep and create natural refuges and buffers that can act as insectaries for not only a wide range of bees, butterflies, parasitic wasps and...
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Educated Farming Practices Help Bees
When using insecticides in either conventional or certified organic production systems, it is important to use them selectively. Use should be based on careful monitoring...
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Update on Japanese Beetle
This article is about a new invasive insect pest that we talked about last fall; Japanese Beetle or Popilaria japonica. On April 8, recently, CBC News informed the public that...
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New Environmental Management Regulations
On February 28, 2019, the Code of Practice for Agricultural Environmental Management (CPAEM) replaced the Agricultural Waste Control Regulation (AWCR). What does this mean, and how does it affect us?
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Cover Crops - Yes or No?
Should you plant a cover crop? No one likes hearing this, but the answer is – it depends. In most perennial crops, such as tree fruit and small fruit, cover crops provide mostly advantages and almost no disadvantages. In filberts, this needs some forethought, and that is why it depends. Let’s look at the possible disadvantages first.
Continue reading...DISCLAIMER: The information and recommendations in this blog are presented in good faith and for general information only. The information is believed to be correct as of the date presented. However, neither TerraLink Horticulture Inc. nor any of its supply partners makes any representation or warranty as to the completeness or accuracy of any of the information. The reader assumes the entire risk of relying on the information.
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