Overcome with Beatles, pounce works but kills predators, what is best responce??
On Thu, 7/3/14, apple-crop-requ...@virtualorchard.net
wrote:
Subject: apple-crop Digest, Vol 43, Issue 4
To: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2014
Maximum yield isn't necessarily the same thing as maximum sales. In my
opinion, the selling is more important than anything else. Yes, good
yields of good quality fruit is important, but being good at selling and
how much you are able to get for what you have to sell trumps everything
else. If y
This photo is at a PYO in Massachusetts not far from Belchertown that has
nice-sized trees for pedestrian picking, with the highest apples within
kid-sitting-on-the-shoulder's reach. Marty is 5'2" and so you can see the
scale. The clerk didn't know the rootstock, but my guess is something
smaller
We have used Assail for several years to control Japanese Beetle, especially in
Honeycrisp. And the timing can coincide for us with a need to spray for apple
maggot as well, depending on the type of temperatures we are having. We spray
the top 1/3 of the tree in Honeycrisp since that is where t
The reason I am so interested in maximizing production is because we have
significant space limitations and are currently unable to meet the demand
of our customers. That's motivation to look for the system which provides
a good picking experience while reaching the maximum possible production.
M
OBLR are very strong flyers, trap catch can be very misleading.
In my...too many years of OBLR monitoring, I have seen both significant damage
with low(10-20) trap catch, and no damage with high(50+) trap catch.!!
I am not a proponent of prophylactic pest control, but if you have had a
history of
