Main research questionIn strawberry the harmful plant fungus Mucor has been showing up. A sharp increase in the number of reports has been observed in recent years.
Identification of the problem and management of the fruitrot fungus Mucor in strawberry
Biochar should replace potting soil in strawberry cultivation: "A much more sustainable soil improver"
Strawberry on a bed of shrimp. Upgrading residual flows from agriculture, horticulture, agri-food and fisheries
Making growing substrates for strawberry and tomato in greenhouses more sustainable: that is the goal of the Interreg 2 Seas project Horti-BlueC.
Horti-BlueC webinar 4: New growing media blends for strawberry and tomato
Do these building blocks truly contribute to effective new growing media blends for strawberry and tomato plants, with reduced fertilizer and chemical crop protection product use? These questions are addressed in the four webinars.
Horti-BlueC webinar 5: LCA on biochar in new growing media blends for strawberry and tomato
Do these building blocks truly contribute to effective new growing media blends for strawberry and tomato plants, with reduced fertilizer and chemical crop protection product use? These questions are addressed in the webinars.
Main research questionHow can we successfully reuse substrates derived from strawberry (mainly peat), vegetables (perlite), but also from ornamental crops (coir and peat substrates)? And how can we increase the adption in practice of these possible recycling loops? These are the main questions of the RE-PEAT project.
The specific goal is to make the substrates for strawberry and tomato in greenhouses more sustainable. We work (further) on residual flows from agro, agri-food and fishery activities, which are processed into compost, plant fibers, biochar and chitin.
For the fungi (and oomycetes) these are: Colletotrichum fructicola and C. siamense on apple, pear and strawberry; Phytophthora pluvialis on Douglas fir; Phytophthora nemorosa and Phytophthora hibernalis in the ornamental sector; and Phytophthora austrocedri on wild juniper.
CYANTIR, a project by ILVO, UGent, Inagro, Sciensano and ULG, studies under controlled conditions the potential accumulation of toxic microcystin in lettuce, carrot and strawberry.
No more yield differences in tomato and strawberry when you remove environmentally damaging mineral wool and a large part of the peat in the cultivation substrate and replace it with renewable or less-energy-consuming products such as wood fiber, chitin, biochar and green compost, respectively.