• Amazone Plants continues the path of organic cultivation

  period that the plants are in the greenhouse, it is not easy for the employees to access the plants, for example to scout them. Infestations may therefore [...] aphids (predominantly peach potato aphids and glasshouse potato aphids), and Duponchelia moths. Amazone Plants uses a variety of beneficials to keep these [...] Wim van der Meer names them for us. Amazone Plants uses Macro-Mite to combat the pupae of the Western flower thrips and Swirski-Mite LD to combat the

• Grow your own vegetable garden

  agricultural activities for subsistence farming purposes has the potential to significantly reduce food insecurity in rural and urban households. In our [...] challenges, of starting a home vegetable garden. Using their Summer Home Garden Starter pack and guiding you in the use of biological control, we are sharing the [...] Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations defines food security as “ a condition within which all people have access to adequate and safe

• Trianum effectively controls Pythium in cucumber

  biological, using fewer and fewer chemicals. He has been using Trianum for the past two years in order to protect his plants’ roots. ‘I started using Trianum-G [...] there was a lot of damage and loss of production at the end of cultivation. Whole mats and whole rows had to be rejected, and the fungus would spread through [...] to some major retailers in the Netherlands and occasionally to customers in Germany. Thrips, spider mites, and whitefly larvae under control ‘I was an integrated

• Spidex Vital lives up to its promises

  Sjaak van Dijk’s father was already using the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis and Sjaak himself has always used it. However, Sjaak recently made the [...] each time and have to build up the necessary populations three times. This is always a critical and tense moment on cucumber farms like mine. And as spider [...] see what happens. However, it is a new product and Koppert may provide amended recommendations for use nearer the time. We may need to apply it more often

• Cherry

  Morocco and Tunisia and up north in the Trondheimsfjord region of Norway and in the Caucasus and northern Iran. Cherries even grow in a small and isolated [...] which is primarily used for cooking. Every part of the cherry plant, except for the ripe cherries themselves, is somewhat toxic and contains cyanogenic [...] species of cherry and a flowering plant that belong to the rose family of Rosaceae . Cherries are indigenous to Europe, Anatolia, Maghreb and western Asia.

• Eggplant

  nightshade and is widely produced for its tasty fruit. In North America and Australia the fruit is called eggplant and in South Africa and Southeast Asia [...] as brinjal. The eggplant is a member of the genus Solanum and is thus related to the tomato and potato. Botanically speaking however, the eggplant is classified [...] classified as a berry. The fruit contains many small and soft seeds. These seeds taste rather bitter, because they contain nicotinoid alkaloids, just like

• Pear

  central and eastern Europe and southwest Asia. The pear tree belongs to the family of Rosaceae and sub family of Pomoideae , together with the apple and quince [...] are grown in Asia, Europe and northern Africa. The European or common pear is a perennial, deciduous tree and cultivated for its fruit. The tree grows [...] 1 inch in diameter) and produces a pyriform, fleshy fruit. Pear trees can grow as tall as 9 metres and are able to produce fruit for around 20 years.

• Grapes

  Europe and southwestern Asia and thus has been cultivated in Morocco and Portugal, southern Germany and Iran. The grape is the fruit of this plant and is actually [...] are consumed fresh and they are processed to make wine or juice and dried to produce raisins. Nowadays there are between 5,000 and 10,000 varieties of

• Cotton

  protective casing for the seeds of the cotton plant, is soft and fluffy and is the source of the fibre which is spun into thread and woven into cloth worldwide [...] (60-120 cm), and fairly heavy soils. These conditions can be found within the seasonally dry tropics and subtropics in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres [...] Cotton plants belong to the genus Gossypium and are part of the mallow family Malvaceae . Cultivation conditions for this important cash crop require plenty

• Citrus

  kumquat, and shaddock, widely cultivated for fruit or grown as an ornamental. It is believed that citrus plants are native to subtropical and tropical [...] from these warmer climates they are not frost hardy. Temperatures not falling below −2 °C (28 °F) are required for successful cultivation. Theses trees thrive [...] varieties include oranges, grapefruit, lemons, and tangerines and to a lesser extent, tangelos. Oranges account for the greatest value in terms of production;