Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Fruit trees commonly set more fruit than they will carry and chemical, mechanical, or hand thinning is done to reduce fruit loads, increase fruit size, and limit alternate year bearing. Natural fruit… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu I visited some strawberry fields over the last few days in Maryland and while most of the fields were on plastic, some were matted row production. Overall, I found low levels… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Originally, commercially available blackberries were floricane types, that is, they fruit on last year’s canes. Over the last decade, the University of Arkansas has released a number of primocane blackberries that are… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Extension entomologists working with spotted wing drosophila, and specifically a group spearheaded by Ash Sial at the University of Georgia, have made updates to insecticide efficacy rankings against SWD. You can find the rankings here:… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu The week of April 21-28 saw our first captures of male San Jose scale in pheromone traps in all three orchards in which we have traps. Trap captures are used to set a ‘biofix’ to… Continue Reading
