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| Vitis 'Vanessa' in the poltunnel |
Ireland will be hotter than Malaga this week with Met Eireann forecasting a spring scorcher.
The mercury is to reach 18C thanks to a big area of high pressure, which will dominate over the coming days. Highs of 18C mean Ireland will be hotter than the south of Spain, where Malaga is expecting highs of 15C-16C with rain.
We'll be watching closely as bud break last year was 14 April but they seem to be a bit ahead of schedule this year.
Meanwhile, bud break for Vanessa in the polytunnel was a couple of weeks ago. She's thriving. And the fulvic acid treatment of the soil and leaves of fungus susceptible plants has done wonders all around in the polytunnel. No leaf curl on the peach or the avocado!
A study of plastic greenhouse soils has demonstrated for the first time that humic acid and fulvic acid have fungicidal activity against many phytopathogenic fungi. What a useful finding!
Another study found that treatment of soil and foliage with HAs strengthens the cell structure.
And one other study showed that humic acid improved the yield and quality of continuous cropping peanuts because of improved physicochemical properties, enzymatic activities, and microbial diversity of soil.
