David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu If you have not already done so, begin scouting for San Jose scale crawlers. We placed pheromone traps in several orchards to help time when to expect crawlers, but did not catch any. This does… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu In our region, commercial strawberries are grouped in two classes based on their flowering habit: those that flower and fruit mostly once in the spring and those that continue to flower and… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu May is when fire blight peaks in apples, pears, Asian pears, and ornamentals such as crabapples and flowering pears from earlier flower infections. After bloom, shoot blights are common in new… Continue Reading
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
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Strawberry Continue scouting for tarnished plant bug (see last week’s edition for further scouting information). Virginia is reporting increasing incidences of spider mite and cyclamen mite activity. Cyclamen mite damage will appear as crinkled leaves… Continue Reading
