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Home > Articles by: Bruce Bordelon

Bruce Bordelon

Professor Emeritus
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3 articles by this author

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Frost and Freeze Warning

April 19, 2021 - From Issue: 687
By: Wenjing Guan, Liz Maynard, Peter Hirst and Bruce Bordelon
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There is a frost and freeze warning for 4/20, 4/21, 4/22. Vegetable growers should be prepared to take protective actions on early-planted warm-season vegetables (tomato, cucumber, pepper, summer squash, bean[Read More…]

 Article Categories:
  • Strawberry
  • Vegetable Crops – General
 Article Tags:
  • Climate and Weather
  • Crop Culture

Update your FieldWatch Information and Report Off-target Damage

May 9, 2019 - From Issue: 657
By: Bruce Bordelon
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FieldWatch is an easy-to-use, reliable, accurate and secure on-line mapping tool intended to enhance communications that promotes awareness and stewardship activities between producers of specialty crops, beekeepers, and pesticide applicators.[Read More…]

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  • Vegetable Crops – General

Strawberry Winter Protection: Straw Mulch vs. Row Covers

April 12, 2018 - From Issue: 640
By: Wenjing Guan and Bruce Bordelon
Figure 1. Strawberries were covered with straw mulch and row cover. Picture were taken in Jan. 9 2018.
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Although strawberry plants can be quite cold hardy, they need protection to survive the winter. In North Carolina, growers use floating row covers to protect strawberries in the winter. In[Read More…]

 Article Categories:
  • Other Vegetables
    • Strawberry
 Article Tags:
  • Crop Culture

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