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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 …

Complex Responses to IPCs in Mandarin Trees
Recent research showed that individual protective covers (IPCs) proved highly effective in reducing Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) populations and thereby preventing HLB infection in three mandarin cultivars. However, overall tree response varied. The research was published in the Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. The authors are Saoussen Ben-Abdallah, Susmita Gaire, Ute Albrecht, […]
After Freeze, Is the Tree Alive or Just the Rootstock?
A Louisiana State University (LSU) Ag Center article explains how to determine if new growth sprouting from a citrus tree damaged by freezing weather is from the tree’s scion or rootstock. Edited excerpts follow: With spring — and warmer weather — upon us, you may be noticing new growth sprouting from a citrus tree that […]

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