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Crop Protection Guide for Nursery & Landscape – 2016 version
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/pub840/p840order.htm For detailed management and biology for common pests of woody plants, check out the new 2016 edition of OMAFRA publication 840. It is just being edited for pdf online. In the meantime, you can email our OMAFRA Contact Centre and request … Continue reading
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Going To Be Cool For a While Still
What a treat! Several of our sugar maples are blooming this year all over southern Ontario, from Barrie to Niagara, these native beauties are gracing our landscapes with blooms. Its been 5 years since sugar maples were blooming like this. The cooler … Continue reading
Cool Weather, Warm Hearts
This cooler weather has been a nice break, slowing down plant development and reducing heat and desiccation stress on newly planted or harvested nursery stock. We inched up … Continue reading
Spring is Spring-ging
Lots of new Plant Phenology indicators are starting to bloom this week! That puts us somewhere between 20 and 35 GDD’s Base 10C in the GTA. A little more in the southwest and a little less above Hwy 9.
Do you use an airblast sprayer?
Airblast 101 – A Handbook of Best Practices in Airblast Spraying- is available online. OMAFRA’s spray guy, Jason Deveau, and his team of educators and researchers have updated the airblast sprayers handbook, making it easier to use and up … Continue reading
July 3, The Friday Report
What a gorgeous week to be living in ONtario! If can you, get outside this weekend and participate in one of the many butterfly/dragonfly/bioblitz counts going on. A full list of events can be found at Ontario Nature. Plant Phenology … Continue reading
The Thursday Report
It’s usually somewhere around this time of early summer that we have a chance to take a breath. Its been another intense, extreme weathered spring and YOU deserve some time off for good behavior. For me, that’s spending time in … Continue reading
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A Few Pests Out There
The rain has stopped for now, but a chance of showers are still in the forecast for much of southern Ontario. Even if its not raining, a few minutes of working outside and it will feel like it is :0 … Continue reading
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The Friday Report
Holy Cow its dry out there, lawns look like they are starting to go dormant. Newly planted trees and shrubs are really starting to suffer. I’ve got American goldfinches trying to drink from my Hummingbird feeder. And my colleague said … Continue reading
Up and Down in Southern Ontario
It’s our favorite time of year, the temperatures are up and down like a yo-yo, the UV index is extremely high, the black flies are still biting (me at least) and a new batch of mosquitoes has just hatched (and … Continue reading
