John Rumfelt brought his weird looking Beauregard sweet potato vine in to the station wondering why it looked so strange. It is fasciated - flattened and ribbed - due to hormonal imbalance from a mutation or other factors. Fasciation is not contagious and John told Leslie Akers that the vines had a good amount of sweet potatoes. I have seen this symptom on highbush blueberry … [Read more...] about Sweet potato fasciation
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The fall festival in Willow Springs was held on Saturday, October 1st this year. The annual event has many nice attractions, one being a very large fruit and vegetable garden harvest competition. Gardeners enter their fall bounty in several categories including fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, preserved fruit, preserved vegetables, preserved other and jams and jellies. Kim Rich, … [Read more...] about Garden entry judging at Bear City Fall Festival in Willow Springs Oct 1
Here are the juice analysis results from the berry samples collected this morning. 6-Oct-16 Cultivar ˚Brix pH TA g/100ml Norton F 24.0 3.52 0.713 Norton NN 22.7 3.49 0.885 Norton NS 23.1 3.61 0.720 Norton R 23.4 3.60 0.773 … [Read more...] about Grape juice analysis