Strawberries and Caneberries

The strawberry is not a true fruit since the botanical fruits are the small, hardened achenes that everybody refers to as seeds distributed on the outside of the ripened receptacle that contains all of the sugars and vitamins that we look forward to eating.

I had a great conversation earlier today with a grower concerning the effect to strawberry fruit productivity of removing the emerging flowers in the early winter months of the season. Beautiful field by the way, good strong plants, nice and green.

A few weeks ago Mark got a call from a person who was wondering why a fungus that we work with, he believes it was Zythia ,also has another name, that being Gnomonia. There's quite a bit to sort out here, and so please follow us here.

Close readers of this blog will know that last year Mark noted toward the end of the season a very unusual looking insect in two of his strawberry research plots, which UCCE Entomologist on the Central Coast at the time Kirsten Pearson identified as the spiny assassin bug, an insect in the family Re...

In case you haven't heard or been outside lately, it's been real warm in the Watsonville-Salinas area the last few days.