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Sterilize Your Soil to Control Bugs and Disease

Dan April 29, 2019 This Land of Ours

Cathy Isom has some excellent tips about what you can do with soil to beat back garden bugs and disease. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Learning how to sterilize soil may be the thing you need to make your garden thrive this year. Soil sterilization helps you kill off the pests and fungi that can wreak …

Management Methods for Alternate Bearing
Practices that might help with alternate bearing were recently addressed in a report by Mary Sutton, University of Georgia (UGA) assistant professor and citrus Extension specialist. Alternate bearing, a common problem in many mandarin varieties, is the tendency of a tree to produce a heavy crop one year followed by a light crop the subsequent […]
Dealing With Disease: Canker, Black Spot and More
As the rainy season in Florida is set to begin, we caught up with Megan Dewdney to discuss citrus canker and other disease issues. Dewdney is a plant pathologist with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Q: How has the prevalence of citrus canker been in Florida in the past year […]

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