Silicon for crop health
Silicon is an available nutrient for all plants grown in soil, with its content in plant tissue ranging from ...
Reducing transplant shock in lettuce
Transplant shock is a check in growth that can occur when seedlings are transplanted from the seedling tray into ...
Management of blindness in lettuce seedlings
Blindness occurs when the main apical shoot or growing tip of the lettuce is lost during the seedling’s early growth. ...
Lettuce grower David East use of biofumigant mustard
In September 2015, Soil Wealth facilitated a field day at David’s property where he spoke about the benefits he ...
Carbon storage in vegetable soils
Growers can reduce the greenhouse impact of vegetable production by maintaining and preventing further loss of stored soil carbon (mitigation) which will ...
Pre-harvest effects on the quality of babyleaf spinach
One of the key issues with babyleaf spinach is how to deliver this popular leafy vegetable to consumers in ...
Pre-harvest effects on lettuce quality
Lettuce is an important horticultural crop in Australia, with an annual production over 160 million tonnes and a total ...
Erosion: how to protect your soil
A healthy topsoil is a great asset to have, as this layer of soil contains the highest concentration of ...
Blankets for vegetables: Using frost cloth to protect plants from weather
Cold winter temperatures are a problem for many vegetable growers. At the least, they reduce growth and yield and ...
Building soil wealth in the south-west of WA
On September 17th a field day on biofumigation at David and Lee East’s Bewray farm at Manjimup, WA attracted ...
Legume cover crops can increase spinach yield
Mulyan Farms owner Ed Fagan oversees the harvest with the purpose-built spinach harvester of the high-yielding spinach crop grown ...