Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu
The fungicide Fontelis has just received a supplemental label for several new uses, including for field, fruit and vegetable crops. A few of the new vegetable uses on the label are the following:
● In-furrow of band applications for seedling diseases of tomatoes and snap bean
● Foliar applications for garlic rust, purple blotch and white rot on bulb vegetables such as onion
● Foliar applications for leaf spots and powdery mildew on brassica leafy vegetables.
● Foliar applications for leaf spots and blights of fruiting vegetables (tomato, pepper, eggplant, etc.)
● Directed spray for basal stem rot (Sclerotinia rolfsii) of fruiting vegetables
● Foliar applications of Septoria and powdery mildew on leafy vegetables
● Foliar applications for leaf spots and anthracnose on edible podded and succulent shelled legumes
See label for specific guidelines and additional uses.