Wednesday, 21 July 2021
The team at Which Plant Where (WPW) hosted a webinar on 22 June 2021 to discuss how to best plan for urban greenspaces by using heat and drought tolerant plants that will be resilient in predicted warmer, drier climates.
This webinar has now been made available for anyone to watch via this link (password: whichplantwhere#21). More
Powdery mildew causes disease on a large number of common nursery stock lines including many vegetable and ornamental species, e.g. tomato, cucurbit crops, rose, begonia, gerbera, zinnia, poinsettia, and many others.
Young new growth or soft, lush foliage tends to be most susceptible. Small white powdery spots occur on most host tissues including upper and lower leaves, stems and fruit. More
A new grower survey is underway to gather insights and information on how to best manage biosecurity incursions.
Conducted by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and Nursery and Garden Industry Queensland (NGIQ), this telephone survey will ask participants to comment on biosecurity incursions they’ve experienced and how business, industry and government responses could be improved.
This survey is being delivered through the ‘Ensuring business continuity during biosecurity incursions – social and economic research learnings for the production nursery industry’ (NY18010) project, aiming to establish robust and effective management practices that minimise the risk of incursion and business interruption.
Production nurseries listed on the Greenlife Industry Australia Trade Register will be contacted for participation in this survey. Involvement is completely voluntary, and all responses will be anonymous and confidential.
Downy mildew causes disease on a large number of common ornamental nursery plants including Cissus, lisianthus, poppy, ranunculus, rose, snapdragon, stock, pansy, alyssum, impatiens, sweet pea, cucurbits, helichrysum basil and brassica seedlings. Each species of downy mildew only infects a small number of closely related plants.
Common leaf symptoms include white to grey or lavender fluffy growth on the underside of leaves. Pale yellow or necrotic spots appear on the upper surface that can be angular and vein delimited. As disease becomes more severe the entire leaf can become infected and may drop off. Downy mildew can also become systemic, particularly in small plants causing wilt and death of the entire plant. Infection of growing tips can cause leaf distortion, stunting and stem cracking.
Thursday, 17 June 2021
The Tomato potato psyllid (TPP) is an exotic pest that was first detected in Perth, Western Australia in February 2017, and has more recently been detected across regional areas of WA, with the exception of the Kimberley region in the north.
The tiny sap-sucking insect poses a significant risk to the nursery industry as it reduces crop yield and spreads the bacterial plant disease ‘zebra chip’ in potato, caused by Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum (CLso) bacterium. More
Thursday, 17 June 2021
A webinar hosted by Greenlife Industry Australia (GIA) is set to introduce a new Smart Farming project to industry, which will showcase the success and benefits of embracing new technologies on-farm.
Funded under the National Landcare program through a Hort Innovation strategic levy funded project, the smart technology and remote sensing webinar will educate producers on how utilising smart communications technology can help improve on farm practices, resource management and business performance.
Key details
Date: Thursday, 22 July 2021
Time: 1pm – 1:40pm (AEST)
