Solarization also eliminates some soil diseases, including Verticillium wilt, Phytophthora root rot, Fusarium wilt, damping-off, crown gall, tomato canker, and potato scab, allowing healthy plants ...

Solarization of soils is a non-chemical method of controlling soil borne pests including disease, root-knot nematodes and weeds by utilizing heat from the sun. The process is inexpensive and can ...

As such, an important “tool” in a gardener’s back pocket should be to know when it is time for the garden to take a rejuvenating break. Though often done later in the fall, soil remediation can begin ...

NPSSI aims to accelerate the adoption of solar energy with a N100 billion investment to reduce energy costs and drive the ...

Soil solarization is a powerful tool in the organic arsenal—but can you solarize a bed that has a tree in the middle?! On the latest You Bet Your Garden, Mike McGrath discusses how you can—and ...

Solarization is the process of heating soil in beds under clear plastic. It can only be used to treat empty beds located in full sun. So as you remove vegetable crops that have finished this month ...

Soil solarization is a convenient, safe, and inexpensive way to manage some soil pests in home gardens. The soil surface is covered with clear plastic, which allows sunlight to pass through and ...

Solarization works against weeds, harmful fungi and bacteria, insects and nematodes - to varying degrees. It's a good way to control the pathogens that cause damping off, tomato canker and ...

In those situations, heating the upper soil layers through solarization may help reduce early-stage populations. So, if mealybugs keep reappearing after replanting or showing up near the root zone ...

Solarization on a digital camera tries to approximate an effect first used in photographic darkrooms, whereby an exposed print, when submerged in developing solution, is briefly exposed to a flash ...