No Comments Written by Editor Editor on 9 June, 2017. Posted in agriculture, chicken mesh, chicken netting, chicken wire net, cucurbits support, disease control with netting, poultry mesh, poultry netting

Chicken wire is a wire mesh made of weaved steel that is used commonly as fence in poultry coop. although there are other kinds of chicken meshes and ones of even better quality, chicken wire is quite common. It is made of thin and flexible steel wire that makes it easy to work. In addition, […]

Reduce mechanical stress with HORTOMALLAS: Download the pdf “How to Manual”

No Comments Written by Hortomallas Hortomallas on 12 December, 2016. Posted in agricultural raffia, bean net, crop netting, crop rotation with netting, cucurbits support, disease control with netting, double wall trellis, eggplant support, horticulture netting, Manuals /Guides /Pamphlets, mechanical stress, melon netting, pathogen reduction, pepper trellis, quality of trellis netting, raffia comparisons, SCROG / SOG / Sea-of-Green / Screen-of-Green, solanaceae support, squash net, tomato net, tomato raffia, tomato rings /tomato clips, tomato stakes, tomato trellis & support, training tomatoes, trellis netting, trellising net, tutoring vegetables

Mechanical stress reduces your production yield by many tons per hectare Mechanical stress appears as a physical alteration in the plant or in one of its parts and can affect the plant at any stage of its development. Wind and rain are the main factors causing mechanical stress but there are other factors too such […]

No Comments Written by Editor Editor on 14 October, 2016. Posted in anti bird netting, aviary mesh, bird /pigeon control, bird netting, bird protection, birdnets, crop netting, disease control with netting

Pest Birds Species| The 3 Most Problematic City Birds Feral Pigeon Columba livia (Columba livia domestica) | PEST BIRDS DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT One of the most problematic pest birds species is the domestic pigeon Columba livia domestica is found worldwide and are a very common in urban and city environments. The feral pigeon have adapted to the roosts […]

Tutoring Manual for Solanaceae

No Comments Written by Hortomallas Hortomallas on 15 September, 2016. Posted in agricultural raffia, Bacterial Diseases, disease control with netting, double wall trellis, eggplant support, fungi / mycosis / fungal attacks, Greenhouse trellises, high-wire crops, horticulture netting, pepper trellis, stakes and cages for plant tutoring, tomato net, tomato raffia, tomato trellis & support, trellis netting, vegetable support net, Viral Diseases

  Download the Solanaceae Tutoring Manual FREE: optimize your horticulture with HORTOMALLAS How to tutor solanacae with support netting   The “Tutoring Solanacae” Manual: Optimize Your Horticulture, is a tutoring manual aimed at all farmers looking for new tutoring techniques for vegetable farming, especially solanacae. There is a variety of tutoring methods around today reflecting […]

Tutoring squash plant and other climbers with tendrils

No Comments Written by Hortomallas Hortomallas on 10 May, 2016. Posted in agricultural raffia, crop netting, cucurbits support, disease control with netting, Gherkin / Cucumber net, horticulture netting, humidity and crops, momordica charantia /bitter melon, pumpkin trellis, raffia comparisons, SCROG / SOG / Sea-of-Green / Screen-of-Green, squash net, trellis netting, vegetable support net, zucchini net

How to use tendrils of the squash plant to work in your favor. The chayote squash plant (sechium edule) is from the cucurbitaceae family on which tutoring and trellising techniques may be applied for crop management and increased yields. But what is tutoring and how does it work? Training plants using a support netting method […]

Effects of climate change on agriculture: trellising net as a preventive method against crop damage.

No Comments Written by Hortomallas Hortomallas on 9 May, 2016. Posted in crop netting, crop rotation with netting, cucurbits support, disease control with netting, fungi / mycosis / fungal attacks, Gherkin / Cucumber net, high-wire crops, humidity and pathogens, mechanical stress, pathogen reduction, vegetable support net, weather / Climate Change

Heavy rains due to climate change, increase crop failures due to humidity related pathogens. Today is essential to cultivate using trellising net when growing vegetables due to climate change. We are facing possibly irreversible climatic changes that have modified in short term our climate worldwide, changing ecosystems, breaking balance of the environment for the species […]