Jun 15, 2011
UC’s Nursery and Floriculture Alliance has an upcoming educational opportunity designed to improve water quality and quantity in and around nursery and floriculture production locations.
Scheduled topics include:
- Review of key plant physiological concepts
- Essential plant nutrients and nutrient disorders
- Plant symptoms and deficiencies
- Environmental and cultural practices that may cause nutrient disorders or reduce the efficiency of nutrient uptake
- Fertilizer Best Management Practices, including the appropriate use of specific types and formulations
- Irrigation systems and infrastructural considerations to optimize water use while minimizing or eliminating water runoff from production facilities
Continuing education units are available.
The upcoming class will be held in Spanish on June 23, in Azusa California. Other classes throughout the state can be found on UC’s Nursery and Floriculture Alliance website.
An inside look at a gerbera greenhouse in Ventura County. Heaters and fans are used for temperature and humidity control. (photo by J.K. Clark)
Topics:
- commercial agriculture
- fertilization
- grower education
- Initiative A Clean Water
- Initiative B Abundant Food
- Initiative C Sharing Science
- Initiative D Sustaining Ecosystems
- Initiative H Managing Pests
- Initiative I Energy for the Future
- irrigation
- local events
- local research
- nursery production
- Spanish language resource
- water quality
- water-wise