Archives
Email Subscription
ONspecialtycrops topics
- Acreage
- AGM
- agronomic practices
- agronomics
- airblast
- all specialty crops
- Alpha Acids
- Application Technology
- BASF
- Basil
- Beneficial Insects
- Benincasa hispida
- Bioeconomy
- Biomass
- biosecurity
- Bird Netting
- bitter melon
- blue mold
- bottle gourd
- Brewing
- Business Planning
- calibration
- Canadian Agricultural Partnership
- Canadian Eco-Scholar Award
- Cannabis
- CAP
- caterpillar
- caterpillars
- chestnut
- chive
- CleanFarms
- Cold susceptibility
- Collection
- Competitions
- Conferences
- cost of production
- Course
- Cover crops
- crop update
- culinary herb
- Cultivar Selection
- Cultural management
- cutworm
- Diagnostics
- disease
- disease management
- Diseases
- Disorders
- Dormant Pruning
- Downy Mildew
- Durham Farm Fresh
- Durham Region
- eastern filbert blight
- Edamame
- edible gourd
- Enterprise Budgets
- Environment
- environmental farm plan
- Equipment
- events
- Feedback
- Fertility
- Fertility guidelines
- fertilizer
- Field day
- Field Production
- filbert
- financing
- Food safety
- Frost
- frost protection
- Fruit Quality
- Fumigation
- Funding Opportunities
- Funding Programs
- Fungicide
- fuzzy melon
- gacp
- Ginseng
- GLHWG
- globe artichoke
- GOHCBC
- Good Agricultural Practices
- Great Ontario Hopped Craft Beer Competition
- greenhouses
- Grower Panel
- Grower Pesticide Safety Course
- growing your farm profits
- grubs
- Guelph Organic Conference
- Hardy kiwi
- harvest
- Haskap
- Haskap Berry Growers ASsociation of Ontario Inc.
- hazelnut
- hazelnuts
- HBGAO
- Hemp
- herbicide
- Herbicide carryover
- herbicide resistance
- herbs
- Hop harvest
- hop meetings
- HopNutrientDemo
- hop pest management
- hop production
- hop quality
- Hop Rub
- Hops
- Hops 101
- hops downy mildew
- Hop Sensory
- Hops Fertility
- Hops IPM training
- Hops marketing
- Hops Meetings
- Hops pesticides
- Hops pest management
- Hops Production
- hops workshops
- Identification
- Industrial crops
- Industrial Hemp
- information session
- insect pests
- Insects
- International Quinoa Research Symposium
- International Society for Horticultural Science
- IPM
- IPM training
- Irrigation
- ISHS
- Japanese beetle
- Kiwiberries
- labour
- Lavender
- Leaf Stripping
- Lime
- Livestock Medications
- Local
- Local Ingredients
- maps
- Marketing
- Markets
- Medicinal herb
- Meetings
- mental health
- Mint
- Miscanthus
- Monitoring
- mousemelon
- mulch
- Mushrooms
- NEIPA
- nematodes
- New Cultivar Development
- Nitrogen
- North American Pawpaw
- nuts
- OFVC
- OHGA
- okra
- ONHoppenings
- ONHops BrewOff
- Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Convention
- Ontario Hoppenings
- Open house
- OPEP
- organic
- Oryza sativa
- Pawpaw
- peanut
- permits
- pest control
- Pest Control Product Application
- Pest Control Product List
- Pest Control Products
- Pesticide
- Pesticide application
- pesticides
- Pest Management
- Pests
- Phosphorus
- Podcast
- postharvest
- post harvest
- Potassium
- potato leafhopper
- Powdery Mildew
- Priorities
- Processing
- Production
- production guide
- Production insurance
- production practices
- programs
- propagation
- Pruning
- publications
- Public comment
- Quinoa
- recommended cultivars
- Regenerative Agriculture
- Registration
- Registrations
- Regulations
- Research
- resistance
- Resources
- Rice
- risk management
- Row-cover
- Scholarship
- scouting
- sea buckthorn
- Seasonal Update
- seed corn maggot
- Seed import
- seeds
- site selection
- Soil Health
- Soil Moisture
- Soils
- soil structure
- soil texture
- Specialty Berries
- specialty crop pest management
- Specialty crop production
- specialty cucurbits
- Specialty Fruit
- Specialty grains
- Specialty Grains and Oilseeds
- Specialty Vegetables
- Spider Mites
- spotted wing drosophila
- sprayer
- sprayers
- Spring Activities
- Spring Pruning
- Summer Student Jobs
- supplements
- Surveys
- Sustainable Seed Systems Lab
- sweet potato
- Switchgrass
- Symposium
- temperature requirements
- tobacco
- tobacco blue mold
- Training
- Tree Nuts
- Trends
- Updates
- value-added
- Washington State University
- Water
- weather
- Webinar
- Weed control
- weed management
- Weeds
- When to harvest hops
- White Rice
- Wild-crafting
- winter damage
- winter melon
- winter protection
- Worker protection
- Workshop
- Workshops
- Yields
- York Farm Fresh
- York Region
Links
Category Archives: Herbs
Axxe Bio-Herbicide Now Registered for use on Field Grown Cannabis and Industrial Hemp
Axxe is a bio-herbicide used for contact spray control or burndown of weeds and grasses for food crops, field crops, pastures, ornamentals, turf, landscapes, interiorscapes, greenhouses, and non-crop areas on farmsteads. The usage label has recently been expanded to include … Continue reading
Poast Ultra Herbicide Registered for Use on Basil
By Jim Chaput, Minor Use Coordinator, OMAFRA The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) recently announced the approval of a minor use label expansion registration for POAST® ULTRA Herbicide for control of labeled weeds on basil (fresh and dried) in Canada. … Continue reading
Posted in Culinary, Herbs
Tagged Basil, herbs, Pest Control Products, Pest Management, Registration, Weeds
Leave a comment
Timing of Pollen Shed for Industrial Hemp Grown in Southern Ontario
Timing of Pollen Shed for Industrial Hemp Grown in Southern Ontario When growing industrial hemp as a source of cannabinoids like cannabidiol (CBD), the common practice is to plant only female plants. This can be done by transplanting female plants … Continue reading
Lavender Crop Update – Late Summer Management – August 21, 2020
August to October is the time lavender plants recover from the bloom period and put on new growth. August is the best time to fertilize plants and prune. Now that we are getting closer to the end of August, pruning … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs, Lavender
Tagged Fertility, Insects, Lavender, Pest Management, Pruning
Leave a comment
Basil Downy Mildew Confirmed in Ontario – July 28, 2020
Basil downy mildew has been confirmed in a home garden in Norfolk County. The symptoms first appeared in the past days, which means infection probably occurred over a week ago. It is likely that the disease is present in most … Continue reading
Posted in Culinary, Herbs
Tagged Basil, Diseases, Fungicide, herbs, Pest Control Products
2 Comments
Trianum P Biological Fungicide Label Expanded to Many Crops including Herbs and Cannabis
By Jim Chaput, OMAFRA, Minor Use Coordinator, Guelph The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) recently announced the approval of a minor use label expansion registration for Trianum P Biological Fungicide for: the Suppression of Post-Emergence Damping Off Caused by Rhizoctonia … Continue reading