We had a wine and food pairing exercise for the last Wine Appreciation for Consumers class.
We are seeing a few leafrollers in the high tunnel raspberries again this year. We also see a few in the adjacent raspberries outside the tunnel. We just picked them off last year and unless they become more of a problem, …
Blackberries in Dr. Kaps cultivar trial are being pruned today. The old, dead floicanes that bore fruit in 2011 are removed. The lateral branches on the live canes that will bear fruit in 2012 are shortened to about 12 inches or …
Martin, John and I were discussion a blackberry samples that we think has the fungal disease anthracnose. An excerpt from the Arksansas newsletter available at http://plantpathology.uark.edu/Number_19_2008.pdf describes the symptoms as follows: “Anthracnose, caused by Elsinoe veneta, can occur on leaves, …
I took refuge from a rainstorm in the high tunnel and found some distorted leaves in the primocane bearing raspberries. According to page 98 of the Midwest Small Fruit Pest Management Handbook, the culprit is the raspberry leafroller Olethreutes permundana, …
Raul and Chen, the two undergraduate student interns who are working at the Mountain Grove Experiment Station this summer, went with me to visit Mr. Ken Meyer’s vineyard in Mount Vernon today. We all benefited from Raul’s experience in vineyard …
The last Wine Appreciation for Consumers class for the semester was held last evening in Karls Hall in Sprinfield. In the first flight we investigated particular taste pairs and in the second flight we explored three wine and food pairing approaches. …
We held the last Wine Appreciation for Consumers class last evening in Springfield. This is the first time the course was offered and it went pretty well considering it was our first go. We ended with a wine and food …
Kandi Phillips, a student in our online Suburban Horticulture class, shared a lovely arrangment of irises with the class. She decided to save them from the coming rainstorms!
We picked our first harvest of elderberry yesterday. It was a heavy harvest on the Bob Gordon cultivar, with a lighter harvest on the Wyldewood cultivar. Now the real work of seperating the berries from the umbels begin.