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Health and safety - This is often taken off the priority list during busy times so check your health and safety policy statement for all the hazards on your site and bring it up to date. You should review your policy statement every year to ensure that all new hazards are included. Are all your staff...
Hot, sunny weather Avoid spraying in the middle of the day. Only spray products that are emulsifiable concentrates during the cooler times of the day to avoid foliage scorch. This can also be said for watering. Make sure that your abstractions do not exceed the daily levels of your licence. Plant...
Nicotine Sales of products containing this active ingredient will be revoked from 8 June (next Wednesday), with a storage and use-up period until 8 June 2010. Roses Several rose growers seem to be concerned by foliage damage showing up in the past few weeks. In each case the affected leaves are...
Powdery mildew This disease is now active on several crops, particularly Acer, Aster, Crataegus, Euonymus, Euphorbia, hops, Lonicera, oak, roses and Solidago. Use Amistar (SOLA 2009-0443), Bumper 250EC (2009-0707), Nimrod, Cyflamid (2007-0512), Fungaflor 100EC (2008-2854), food-grade potassium bicarbonate,...
Container-grown crops Make sure your sticky traps are in place to monitor crop pests. Gleditsia pea gall Remember to spray emerging leaflets with Admire, Gazelle or Hallmark WZT (SOLA 2008-2944). Flea beetles You can often see examples of the large blue flea beetle outside on container plants...
Plums - Many growers have struggled with severe container-grown, plum-tree death this season. It seems to be nationwide and is not on any isolated nursery or retailer. I am not sure of the cause of the problem this year but will now try to identify what physiological conditions have made the trees...
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