This month I wanted to take a look at an IPM tool that is too often over looked by growers, a tool that provides invaluable information to growers about how their crops and pests are progressing throughout the growing season. This month I would like to discuss the concept of phenology. Have you ever been with…

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Jack Harrell III, one of 70 volunteers at The Players, is interviewed in the evening of the third day.

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Harrell’s Technical Manager Marshall Horsman explains the proper way to fertilize palm trees in a landscape environment. Marshall Horsman is a Technical Manager for Harrell’s, specializing in tropical horticulture. He has been studying palms and horticulture since the age of 13, when he began traveling to remote areas of Latin America and the Caribbean with his…

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In this video, Dr. Raymond Snyder explains how to collect tissue samples from golf courses. Tissue testing, in conjunction with soil testing, can help identify potential problems and will help you fine tune your course’s nutritional program. Dr. Snyder has been the Research and Development Manager of Harrell’s, LLC since 2007. Dr. Snyder is a graduate…

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In this video, Harrell’s Technical Manager Marshall Horsman explains various nutritional deficiencies affecting palms, and how to identify and treat these problems. Nutrients covered include nitrogen, potassium, magnesium, manganese, iron and boron. Marshall Horsman is a Technical Manager for Harrell’s, specializing in tropical horticulture. He has been studying palms and horticulture since the age…

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And then there was boron. Boron may sit at the bottom of the food chain, so to speak as it is a minor element needed in very small amounts, with only Molybdenum being lower. It is none the less very important! Boron helps aid the transport of sugars made through photosynthesis. However, its main role is…

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Trees, shrubs, and herbaceous ornamentals benefit greatly from proper fertilization.  Fertilizing with the proper complete fertilizer early in the year promotes the development of healthy landscape plants that can withstand stresses associated with the growing season.  Proper fertilization also promotes highly desirable aesthetic qualities such as flowering and blooms which result in beautiful landscape appearances. Woody…

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Dr. Richard S. Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY warns of a potential high 2012 tick population and higher public risk of Lyme Disease. ‘This is not because of the unusually warm winter, however,’ says Ostenfeld.  ‘There is no rigorous evidence supporting a positive correlation between winter temperatures…

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Lakeland, Florida, April 20, 2012 – Harrell’s, manufacturer and supplier of performance-based turf and ornamental products, is pleased to announce the expansion of the Turf & Landscape Division to the southeastern U.S. With resources in the Florida and Indiana markets, Harrell’s is rapidly expanding throughout the southeast with territory managers added in Alabama and parts…

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Syngenta has released a technical bulletin for a new fungicide called Micora in the ornamental markets. The active ingredient, Mandipropamid, is in MOA class 40, the Carboxylic Acid Amides. This chemistry will have protectant and contact control and translaminar activity into the leaf cuticle. Micora provides long residual control of labeled diseases Phytophthora and Downy…

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Connecticut Residents, Connecticut Environmental Council needs your immediate action on two legislative proposals currently under consideration by the Environment and the Planning & Development Committees.  Support – HB 5155 in the Environment Committee The Environment Committee is scheduled to vote on CTEC’s top legislative priority for the 2012 session HB 5155 which would remove the ban on pesticide…

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As winter turns to spring, we find ourselves busier than ever trying to keep up with plant demands.  Fertilizers, pre-emergent herbicides, and fungicides are being applied so quickly you may now be looking to hire additional employees just to keep up.  Obviously, this is a great problem to have!  But before our agronomic vision becomes…

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Does the mild winter translate into more insects? Not necessarily, but we may see earlier activity, about 3 to 4 weeks ahead of schedule from a normal year. Actually, the drier weather we had experienced may counter act the warmer weather reducing the population slightly. Now is the time to start controlling nuisance pests. Depending on…

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Impatiens Downy Mildew – Dr. Margery Daughtery from The Cornell Extension Agency on Long Island spoke to us about Impatiens Downy Mildew. Prior to 2011 this disease had been isolated in a few pockets of the U.S. including the Midwest and New England. The unusually wet and stormy summer and fall we had helped to…

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On December 15, 2011 a Southeast Georgia citrus grower decided to put Harrell’s EarthMAX™ to the test. The grower set up a ‘head-to-head’ competition between two Ruby Red Grapefruit trees of the same age.  He used a 1/2% solution rate every two weeks as an application rate for the treated tree and for the next three…

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