Nematodes in your kitchen

Facial tissues, a small mesh screen, and a small dish are all that’s needed to perform a quick nematode soil analysis. A quick and easy extraction test can be conducted in your kitchen to learn if your soils and or plant roots harbor nematodes, says Dr. Ekaterini Riga, Washington State University nematologist. The test is not sophisticated and will not take the place of sending soil samples to a laboratory for nematode analysis, she stressed, but it could serve to confirm suspicions that nematodes are present in your soil. Though the dagger nematode can be seen by the bare eye, […]