It’s that time of year, the annual Nursery Growers Short Course is right around the corner. This year, short course is back in-person and will be held on Friday February 10, 2023. We also have a new location; Landscape Ontario offices at 7856 Fifth Line, Milton.
Continue readingNurseries who grow and ship Boxwood, please read. This post provides important information on new proposed requirements and an opportunity to provide feedback to CFIA.
In November of 2022, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) added Box Tree Moth to their list of regulated pests and have established a regulated area of the entire province Ontario. You can find the details of the pest risk management decision at this link here (RMD-22-02).
With the upcoming implementation of the regulated area of Ontario for box tree moth, new domestic and import phytosanitary requirements will be put into place by CFIA with a target date of March 31, 2023 for implementation.
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My name is Cassie and I’m the new Nursery and Landscape Specialist with OMAFRA.
As many of you know, after 23 years in the role, Jen Llewellyn has moved onto other opportunities outside of OMAFRA. While nobody could ever replace Jen, I sure will do my hardest to support you all as best I can!
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PRIVA’s BioLogics for Plant Growth
Peter Kamp, Crop Systems Innovator, PRIVA
Thursday, January 20, 2022
12:00–1:00 PM EST (lunch and learn)
on ZOOM!
Peter Kamp will present a new steering principle to achieve crop goals based on the overall water balance of the plant. The unique starting point of this steering principle is a feed-forward control for the greenhouse climate and water-supply, based on water uptake, fixation of water and transpiration of the crop. The control follows the plant’s circadian rhythm in terms of growth and crop development and can be specifically tuned to the crop goals of the grower.
Dr. Fadi Al-Daoud, Greenhouse Vegetable Specialist, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), e-mail: fadi.al-daoud@ontario.ca
Join us ONLINE for the 2022 Ontario Nursery Growers Short Course
This year’s theme is – Production! Production! Production!
The speaker program is sure to add to your growing success!
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The next application intake for cost-share funding under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) will be November 15 to December 6, 2021. This is good timing if you are looking to implement improvements in your greenhouse for the 2022 season.
Adopting innovative automation to improve labour productivity is an eligible project area. (Image of an automatic cutting transplanter- AutoStix)
Several project areas are available to growers.
The following categories may be of specific interest to greenhouse floriculture growers:
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Vineland Research and Innovation Centre and the Marketing& Consumer Studies department at the University of Guelph have partnered to better understand the factors consumers consider and value when purchasing nursery plants. Results from consumer interviews completed through in-store intercept interviews and an online survey of North American consumers in 2020 and 2021 will be highlighted. Since nursery centres have increased their online presence due to pandemic restrictions, we will provide recommendations on how best to position products for both in-store and online success.
You must REGISTER to attend this event!
To REGISTER, please visit: https://horttrades.com/grower-and-garden-centre-town-hall-2021
In mid-late autumn, we have an opportunity to manage some of our plant pests, such as mite eggs and scale insect nymphs, before they go completely dormant. Now that trees are starting to drop their leaves and the weather has turned mild for a bit, horticultural professionals have a great window for managing some overwintering plant pests! The full, dormant rate of horticultural oil is excellent for smothering juvenile stages of insects this time of year as long as the application isn’t followed too closely by a significant freeze event. Magnolia scale (photo above: overwintering nymphs in autumn J. Llewellyn) populations were… Continue reading
I am Mieke Boecker, the 2021 OMAFRA Summer Field Technician. I worked closely with Jen Llewellyn, OMAFRA Nursery and Landscape Specialist on several projects and this article outlines some of the highlights of my summer contract with OMAFRA.
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White waxy filaments produced by beech scale mothers protect eggs and hatching nymphs on the trunk of this American beech (J. Llewellyn)
Introduced Beech scale (Cryptococcus fagisugae) goes hand in hand with beech bark disease (Neonectria faginata and N. ditissima). It is believed that the wounds made by the tiny scale nymphs create entry points for the lethal fungal disease. Beech scale is easier to see this time of year on our native American beech (Fagus grandifolia). That’s because of the white waxy coverings the females produced to protect their eggs in late summer. Continue reading
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