Early Season Canopy Management in Grapes: Shoot Positioning and Early Leaf Removal
By Spencer Leidl (Summer Student) and Kathryn Carter (OMAFRA) In our previous article on Early Season Canopy Management: Shoot Thinning,Continue Reading
Author: Kathryn Carter
Early Season Canopy Management for Grapes: Shoot Thinning
By Spencer Leidl (summer student) and Kathryn Carter (OMAFRA) As a new growing season begins, it is important to ensureContinue Reading
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Tender fruit and Grape update-June 4, 2020
By Kathryn Carter, Dr. Wendy McFadden-Smith and Amanda Green, OMAFRA Weather The hot weather has continued to push degree dayContinue Reading
Manure Applications in Vineyards
By Lydia Balogh (summer student), Kathryn Carter and Christine Brown, OMAFRA Composted manure (a mixture of animal manure and strawContinue Reading
Tender fruit and Grape update-May 27, 2020
Weather Following a cool spring, hot humid weather has moved into our area. The warm weather is pushing degree dayContinue Reading
Tender fruit and Grape update-May 22, 2020
Weather It has been a cool May and temperatures have been below normal, with degree day accumulations running behind normalContinue Reading
Adapting peach production to reduced labour availability
The 2020 growing season has had a challenging start with delays in availability to seasonal foreign workers and quarantine requirements.Continue Reading
Spring frost risk for grapes
This spring has been cool, with temperatures in April and May below average. Although bud break hasn’t happened yet inContinue Reading