Do you like yellow soft fruit? Are you a fan of genre defining 90’s music? Do you hope wistfully for a groundbreaking mashup containing both of these things? Could you be a cartoon supervillain with a cohort of minions?
Why not buy a t-shirt or a sticker!?
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/BANANA-NEVERMIND-by-TwoOwlsDesigns/166415392.FB110
#banana #nirvana #makers #maker #mydesign #degrowth #softfruit #90smusic #grunge #gru #minions
Excited about our new #InnovateUK project, FLYTHRIVE, with Olombria, NRI, Asplins and Summerberry Company. Hoverflies are amazing: dual-purpose beneficial insects! They are good little #pollinators, and many species also help control aphids! The larvae of the aphid-eating #hoverflies are voracious little predators that will eat up to a few dozen aphids per day.
As UK #fruit growers are seeing more and more #pesticide products withdrawn from approval, they are getting much more interested in biological control methods to manage pests - such as predatory insects.
So the FLYTHRIVE project is all about developing a hoverfly-based system (supported by machine vision and odour lures) to give safe and efficient aphid control on soft fruit.
https://hortnews.com/flythrive-uses-ai-to-drive-natural-defences-and-deliver-value-to-growers/
#IPM #PestManagement #Syrphidae #SoftFruit #Horticulture #FoodSystems #AgriTech
Today's Flighty's plot blog post is All ready
https://flightplot.wordpress.com/2025/03/23/all-ready-2/
#Allotment #Blog #Flowers #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #SoftFruit #Vegetables
Rather excitingly, the hoverfly+bumblebee pollinated plants produced fruits with the highest vitamin C concentration, higher than either the self-pollination or hoverfly-pollination scenarios. [4/]
Strawberries are a great source of vitamin C. When grown on farms, the quality standards are very high - fruit need to be regularly-shaped, decently-sized and evenly-coloured. Poor pollination can result in irregular and thus unmarketable fruit.
Reminder: Niab's Soft Fruit Technical Day coming up next week (28th November). Free online event, 09:10 to 14:15 GMT, a range of short talks on how our research can be applied to soft-fruit growing systems. Crop physiology & biology, IPPM, sustainable growing.
https://www.niab.com/niab-soft-fruit-day-28-nov
#Horticulture #SoftFruit #Agriculture #SustainableFood #IPM #Entomology #CropScience
Also nice to catch up with Kent's amazing fruit growers, agronomists, biocontrol suppliers and others.
Chatted about some of the projects we have around pollination and sustainable pest management in fruit crops.
#IPM #HorticulturalResearch #Farming #Apples #Pears #SoftFruit
A whole punnet of Angus (Monifieth!) strawberries plus lashings of cream. #Food #ScottishFood #Fruit #ScottishFruit #SummerFruit #Strawberries #SoftFruit #Cream #Monifieth #Angus #Tayside #Dundee #Scotland #ClottedCream #CornishClottedCream #Roddas #Berries
Dodged the showers to get these in. It’s not been a bad year with the blackcurrant haul particularly good.
We need some sunshine to ripen the blueberries though.
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#growyourownfood #softfruit #frommygarden #kitchengarden #homegrown #growwhatyoueat #cotswolds #HomegrownFood
It’s that time of year again!
Protect cherries & other soft fruit from pests including pigeons & blackbirds. Also used on strawberries, grapes & blueberries!
#cherries
#Strawberries
#Grapes
#softfruit
There’s a good #crop of #blackberries this year!
#nature #NaturePhotography #plant #fruit #softfruit #bramble #blackberry #summer #harvest #WWT #WWTCastleEspie #CountyDown #NorthernIreland
Today's Flighty's plot blog post is The raspberry patch -
https://flightplot.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/the-raspberry-patch
Today's Flighty's plot blog post is Raspberries and rhubarb -
https://flightplot.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/raspberries-and-rhubarb/
