Success StoryHelping a Novice Blueberry Producer
Helping a Novice Blueberry Producer
Author: John Grove
Planning Unit: Plant and Soil Sciences
Major Program: Horticulture, Commercial
Outcome: Initial Outcome
I received a call from a beginning blueberry producer. Her plants, still in the pots and intended for commercial blueberry production, were not doing well. The symptoms were consistent with salinity stress. Determined that the nursery from which she and her husband had bought the plants had recommended a fertilizer material, and rate of that material, that was causing the salinity problem. Daniel Becker had first diagnosed the salinity problem and she called me to confirm. They have been putting extra water through the pots to remove the excess salts. She knows that some of the plants will not recover, but feels good that they are now on the right path towards their desire to have a small blueberry farm.
Stories by Plant and Soil Sciences
Small Horse Farm Improves Forage from UK Equine Pasture Evaluation Program
In 2016, Paul and Melita Knapper were the first farm to be enrolled in the RCPP Overgrazing and Soil... Read More
Fescue eradication and improved management increases profits for Central Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm
A central Kentucky thoroughbred horse farm experienced a high incidence of fescue toxicosis symptoms... Read More
© 2024 University of Kentucky, Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment