Simple ‘Soil Steaming’ Found as Effective Replacement for Chemicals in Organic Strawberry Farming

Originally published on Good News Network

A mere puff of steam could be the ticket to much larger and reliable strawberry yields in California, the LA Times reported. University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) researchers have been developing boiling water vapor as an alternative to chemical fumigants for the sterilization of the soil strawberries are grown in, which are believed to