Strawberries and Caneberries

A local grower was surprised yesterday morning by the huge bug infestation depicted in the photos below suddenly appearing in his berry field.             Photo 1: A mass of false chinch bugs crawling up a support post.          Photo…

Mark was easing into some Sunday morning reading last week at a small park in Watsonville that is very close to a strawberry field when the unusual insect depicted below paid him a visit.  Given that he had never seen this insect (and doubts that many of you have either), he felt a surge of unease that…

The UC Davis Strawberry Breeding program in collaboration with Naturipe, will be having a field day at their Christenson Ranch June 11, starting at 9 am.  Updates on the day-neutral cultivars will be provided, many of which are planted right there for viewing.   Attached please find …

The strawberry is not a true fruit since the botanical fruits are the small, hardened achenes that everybody refers to as seeds distributed on the outside of the ripened receptacle that contains all of the sugars and vitamins that we look forward to eating.

I had a great conversation earlier today with a grower concerning the effect to strawberry fruit productivity of removing the emerging flowers in the early winter months of the season. Beautiful field by the way, good strong plants, nice and green.