Rutgers Cooperative Extension
It has been a long winter and delayed spring this year but yesterday’s rain and that of two weekends ago has “primed the pump” and initiated new growth of many turfgrasses and other plants. Thus, there is no more time to put off yard clean-up. Any leaves, branches and other debris dropped and blown around […]
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The program for the control of annual weeds in the vineyard should consider the weed free strip under the trellis and the sod middles between the rows separately. The “Weed Control Season” starts in late fall, after harvest. The program implemented in the spring depends on what herbicides were applied the previous fall. If herbicides […]
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Work continues to progress toward reinstating the Kerb label for leaf lettuce, but has not been completed and is not expected to be completed in time for use in this year.
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Last week, we saw photographs of cherrylaurel that got pummeled by the winter. Of course, I proved my plant ignorance in the blog post by calling the photos of cherrylaurel, Prunus laurocerasus, mountain laurel, which is Kalmia latifolia. No doubt mountain laurel got hurt in the winter just the same as cherrylaurel did and no doubt […]
Continue reading...Vegetable Integrated Crop Management Twilight Meeting Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Location: East Vineland Fire Hall, Landis Ave. across from the Savoy Restaurant (park behind the building and enter conference room door in rear) The Rutgers Cooperative Extension Agricultural Agents of Atlantic, Cumberland and Gloucester Counties invite you to the […]
Continue reading...Herbicide-resistant weeds are an ever increasing problem. When most people hear herbicide-resistant weeds these days they think of glyphosate resistance. However, I think Group 2 resistance (or ALS-resistance) is just as bad, if not worse, for our area. Small grains is a crop that relies heavily on ALS herbicides for weed control, and over the […]
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