By Heather Cooper •
Update: the Rutgers Nursery and Green Industry Working group developing a lunch-hour Critical IPM Updates (1hr) throughout the season. Sessions will be the second and fourth Tuesday, April-September. Sessions will be held live via Zoom and will be recorded then translated into Spanish. This is in effort to have the entire nursery industry on the […]
By Heather Cooper •
Virtual (10/10, 10/15) & In-person (10/22/2024)We invite ALL growers and landscape professionals (nursery, greenhouse,Christmas tree, vegetable, row crops, turf management, etc.) to attend thefollowing educational sessions surrounding overall plant health topics, pestmanagement principals, and pesticide use considerations. The virtual sessions (on Zoom 10/10 & 10/15) are free and will count as“in-person”, meaning all attendees will […]
Per NJNLA – Green Industry Updates njnla.director@gmail.com
By Heather Cooper •
“Invasive Species Bill Progresses out of Committee – For the past year, the NJ Nursery & LandscapeAssociation has been advocating for the nursery and landscape industries with respect to a bill thatproposes to ban the propagation, sale, export or import of a select group of plants that are widelyconsidered to be invasive. Similar legislation has […]
New Jersey Nursery & Landscape Association
By Salvatore Mangiafico •
The initial list of regulated invasive plant species shall include: In addition to future exemptions pursuant to section 3b of this Act, the following list of cultivars and varieties of the above regulated species shall be exempted from regulation but shall require accompanying plant labelling and explanatory materials approved by NJDA: For more information, please […]
Timothy Waller, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
By Salvatore Mangiafico •
(June 15, 2023) Source: Rutgers Plant and Pest Advisory Diseases on the radar Phytophthora, Pythium, Phytopythium root diseases Compounds used to control Oomycetes (Phytophthora, Pythium, Phytopythium) are called Oomycides and are fundamentally different than those used for fungal and bacterial diseases. Therefore, proper identification is required, as a plant with a fungal root rot (black […]
Timothy Waller, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
By Salvatore Mangiafico •
Nursery and Landscape Pest Scouting with GDD50 – JULY 2023 Link to pdf document
Tim Waller, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
By Salvatore Mangiafico •
( May 24, 2023) Source: plant-pest-advisory.rutgers.edu/get-ready-for-bagworms-now/ Bagworms should begin hatching NOW through – 4 weeks in NJ, beginning in the southern regions. Now is an optimal time to get this pest on your radar and prepare materials or approaches to attack first/second instar caterpillars. The control window for this pest is typically between 600-900 GDD50 […]
Timothy Waller, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
By Salvatore Mangiafico •
Nursery and Landscape Pest Scouting with GDD50 – JUNE 2023 Link to pdf document