WHAT'S IT LIKE TO WORK ON A FARM??


Welcome to my work blog!



So, after some thought, I decided to start a work blog!! Over the years, friends and family seem pretty impressed upon telling them about the farm where I work. A lot of them seem shocked at the actual size of the nursery, and the quanity of product we crank out in a season. So why not keep a daily journal of what goes on here?




A day in the life on a farm



A DAILY LOOK AT LIFE ON A WHOLESALE NURSERY FARM

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Aster Yellows



There's been problems with Aster Yellows affecting the Coneflowers this year.  Many of them will have to be thrown away because of this disease.  Aster Yellows is a chronic systemic disease cause by a bacterium known as phytoplasma.  It's moved between plants by a leaf hopper insect. The purple coneflower is just one variety affected by this disease; others include the carrot, onion, celery, asters, and marigolds.  Symptoms include stunting, green flowers, deformity, and sterilization.



A normal looking Purple Coneflower.


A Coneflower plant infected with Aster Yellows.  The leaves are deformed and cupped;  its flowers severely deformed, stunted, and green. 

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