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02 Mar 2012

Bayer CropScience's Fenomenal fungicide has been approved for use on outdoor strawberries, as well as on ornamental plants.

HDC seminar video goes online

02 Mar 2012

The Horticultural Development Company has put online a video of its grower seminar on optimising pest and disease control held in January.

The latest edition of the UK Pesticide Guide is now out. Changes to pesticide approvals in EC Regulation 1107/2009 are now in place and must be complied with. "Many products have been issued with revised expiry dates and some have been granted extensions," said editor Martin Lainsbury. "However, a number...

Pesticide treatment clarified for fuchsia gall mite control

10 Feb 2012

The RHS has conceded that it gave out incorrect information about fuchsia gall mite when it said there was no effective pesticide to control the burgeoning pest.

Phytophthora austrocedrae hits English junipers for the first time

09 Feb 2012

Phytophthora austrocedrae has hit rare native juniper bushes at the Moor House - Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve in the North Pennines.

Fuchsia gall mite and leek moths enter RHS top 10 pests list

12 Jan 2012 | by Matthew Appleby

Slugs and snails have taken the top RHS pest enquiry slot for 2011 after having lost first place to viburnum beetle in 2010.

Forestry Commission halts larch felling

08 Nov 2011 | by Matthew Appleby

The Forestry Commission has introduced a temporary moratorium on issuing new permissions to fell larch trees during the winter in the areas of Britain at greatest risk of having ramorum disease.

Horse chestnut tree sales fall by 98 per cent because of pests and diseases

01 Sep 2011 | by Matthew Appleby

With scientists unlikely to find a predator for horse chestnut leaf miner, the tree's commercial prospects appear bleak.

Cash sought to tackle oak threat

01 Sep 2011 | by Hannah Jordan

Environmental charity Woodland Heritage issues call for funding to overcome acute oak decline.

Gloomy, rainy skies bring blight infection risk

01 Sep 2011

A pall of gloomy skies across large parts of the UK has left potato growers battling against blight infections and struggling to cope with big crop canopies in the run-up to harvest.

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