Plantel Nurseries in the Santa Maria Valley has grown high quality vegetable transplants for 35 years.
Sergio Ruiz, Contributor
While the bounty of the Santa Maria Valley’s agricultural land is easiest to see at harvest time as vegetables, fruits and flowers are loaded onto trucks, the work begins long before that.
The harsh conditions that crops face before harvest is most pronounced at the beginning; when weather, pests and predators can have a dramatic impact…
