Cultivar Suggestions For Commercial Small Fruit ...
Author: H. D. Stiles Strawberry Spring Crop 2. Variations among local environments, microclimates and cultural conditions can affect a cultivar's performance at different sites within a region; on-farm trials provide the best information on which ... [... more]
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Strawberry Alert
During a recent strawberry field day at the Jim Bowman farm south of Harrisonburg, Va., we saw one multi-acre field of Chandler strawberries wiped out by Rhizoctonia Root Rot disease identified by our Virginia Tech Plant Disease Clinic. There ... [... more]
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Eastern U.S. Varieties, Blacksburg
Harvest data tables are shown for 2 years for 9 newer eastern varieties, years 1998 and 1999, at Kentland Research Farm near Blacksburg, a colder site at elevation of about 2,400' in the mountains of Southwest Virginia. For both years, with a ... [... more]
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PLANNING FOR THE ENTERPRISE
Authors: Charles R. O'Dell Extension Horticulturist, Department of Horticulture, Virginia Tech; Jerry Williams, Teaching Hortculturist, Department of Horticulture, Virginia Tech Table 1 - Production Costs and Projected Income at Low, Medium and ... [... more]
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February 2002; Volume 1, Issue 2
Charlie O'Dell, Extension Hort. Emeritus and U-Pick Berry Grower Over the past decade we've produced Chandler strawberries on plastic mulch on one to two acres per year in the mountains of western Virginia at elevation of about 2,400'. For 20 ... [... more]
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Commercial Horticulture Newsletter, November - December 1996
Currently there are relatively few acres of strawberries in Virginia, but many acres of plasticulture vegetables. Nationally and internationally plasticulture production is a growth industry, but concerns about dumping plastic in landfills plus ... [... more]
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Mechanically Cleaning Carry-over Strawberries
Our strawberry research is focused on developing a profitable recyclable production system for 3 cropping years per planting with hardy Eastern varieties.. The challenge is to maintain adequate berry size and yields for second and third year ... [... more]
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New Options for Field and Greenhouse Strawberries
For 1998 we are excited about testing a new transplanter design for mechanically setting bare root strawberry plants through plastic mulch. Our earlier research found that late June/early July was an optimum time for transplanting bare root ... [... more]
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Tough Strawberry Growers Master Tough Times
Over this region and much of the eastern USA drought has continued to plague growers. Water supplies have dwindled or dried up on many farms. Surface water from ponds and streams has not been available for irrigation. Assuming rains come to ... [... more]
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Laying Plastic Mulch
This is a reminder note to urge you to consider laying some extra rows of plastic mulch as you prepare for possible fall planting of Chandlers, Camerosas and/or Sweet Charlie plug plants. Several growers do so, getting on their land in early ... [... more]
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New Information on Strawberry Fertigation Improves Yields
In recent area strawberry schools we have imported expertise from NCSU benefiting our growers from the latest applied field research by our next door neighbors. Dr. Gordon Miner, their soil scientist, works diligently with refining strawberry ... [... more]
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Plasticulture Strawberry Recycling Considerations
Starting with disease-free nursery-grown runner tips for each planting, we are now researching the financial and environmental benefits of recycling for a second harvest year the original plants, the beds, the initial strip fumigation, the ... [... more]
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