Strawberries and Caneberries

A growing body of research out of Cornell University is showing that low doses of UV light can be quite effective against powdery mildews in agriculture, including Podosphaera aphanis, which challenges strawberry growers every year.

Saw this file shared on Twitter the other day, it comes from a presentation made at a talk for tech start ups. What do you think? Pretty crude characterization of academics, but still made me laugh pretty hard. Sort of hard to deal with us University folk huh.

Great article here from Growing Produce about how researcher Hannah McIntosh out in Wisconsin obtained serious reductions in SWD in raspberries by underlaying the crop with plastic mulch (three colors tested: metallic, black and white).

Good article here from the Wall Street Journal. I provided a good amount of info to Jesse over the past couple of weeks, in particular walking her through some of the financials and cultural practices of the business.

Introduction: As of three years, Lewis mite (Eotetranychus lewisi) has become an issue in Central Coast strawberries, and to some extent on caneberries.