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Vermont Apple IPM: Foliar nutrient sampling, apple maggot, codling moth, wrapping up disease management
I’m going to steal and repeat a line that one of our own growers shared recently: I hope everyone has all the equipment working flawlessly, all the mowing done, most of the spraying completed and is able to sit on the porch waiting for harvest to start unaided. With that said, there area few things to keep in mind as we move toward August. In my last email I recommended collecting and analyzing leaf tissue samples which will be used for developing next year’s nutrition program, but it was buried in the last paragraph of an eight-paragraph missive. I’ll add it here and include one more lab that’s available for handling samples: Foliar nutrient analysis – It is the time in the growing season to collect leaf samples for analysis. Samples are usually collected between July 15 – Aug. 15. The UVM Agriculture and Environmental Testing Lab can provide analysis,…
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