Managing Onion Maggot in vegetables
Onion Maggot (Delia platura), also known as seed corn maggot, is an agricultural pest that damages seeds and seedlings ...
Summer cover crops
Check out this summer cover crop summary to find a cover crop to help: Improve soil structure Add cheap ...
Nutrient element functions in vegetable crops
Plant nutrients are commonly split into two categories: Major elements (macronutrients) that are required in relatively large quantities by ...
Winter cover crops
Check out this winter cover crop summary to find a cover crop to help: Build soil structure Add cheap ...
Brassica whitefly control in vegetables
Brassica whitefly (Aleyrodes proletella) is a pest of crops in the brassica family. This insect is not restricted to ...
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. ...
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 ...