N.C. State study links soil temperature to predicting spread of costly crop pest
Researchers focused the study on a pest that typically ravages corn, cotton, soybeans, peppers, tomatoes and other vegetable crops.
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Researchers focused the study on a pest that typically ravages corn, cotton, soybeans, peppers, tomatoes and other vegetable crops.
HERMON â Before Fridayâs persistent rain and final April freeze, thousands of microscopic nematodes soaked into the soil at Our Little Grewve. Owners John J. Anson and Elizabeth R. Seeley first seeded their idea for a regenerative flower farm about two years ago, with Our Little Grewve having grown into a collection of raised beds and flat gardens over two acres outside their County Route 21 home â and theyâre growing still. Commonly called a beneficial nematode control, the spray applied to the gardens Thursday is one component of the farmâs regenerative approach to ...