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Edible and Delicious Ground Cover Plants

Dan December 20, 2019 Specialty Crops, This Land of Ours

Cathy Isom has a few suggestions for you about some edible and delicious ground cover plants. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Ground covers can be cut for food as well as walked on gently by soft, bare feet. Garden thyme is full of pink and purple flowers in early summer, and when you walk on it the …

Best Bets for Brown Garden Snail Management
Brown garden snails (Cornu aspersum) can reach incredible population densities in California citrus orchards if left unmanaged. More than 1,000 snails per tree have been documented in some cases, according to Mark Hoddle, University of California, Riverside biological control specialist. To help growers deal with this problem, Hoddle recently participated in a Citrus Research Board […]
CRDF Board Convenes at Industry Conference
The Citrus Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) board of directors held its June meeting at the Florida Citrus Industry Annual Conference in Bonita Springs. “Congratulations to Florida Citrus Mutual for putting on another outstanding industry conference,” said Rick Dantzler, CRDF chief operating officer. “Several growers who attended told me they got an awful lot out […]

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