My name is Jade Florence and I am a PhD Candidate in Botany & Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. I study the overwintering of Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi and cultural methods of disease management.
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Hi Jade
My wife and I have an small organic Blueberry farm . We are interested in the system Ken Berg uses to manage mummyberry.
We would like to know how early people are putting down the visqueen plastic for this season. ( We have had a mild winter here, and assume we would have to be ready pretty soon).
How wide are the strips of plastic – how far into the row middles from the plant does he place the plastic, or is it all the way across the rows. We have grass row middles, and there are probably some mummies in there, although we tried to mow and “vacuum” with our mower as close to the ground as possible during the fall clean-up.
We also picked up all visible mummies from around the plant – but we are never able to get them all.
Would it be possible to be on your email list, and to receive any new information that you may have through your research on organic Blueberry production?
What are the weights/sizes for Visqueen that are appropriate for this purpose? And would we find them in greenhouse supply outlets, or is there a special supplier?
Any answers you have would be very helpful, and much appreciated.
Thank you,
Kerry McDonald