Emmalea Ernest, Extension Agent – Vegetable Crops; emmalea@udel.edu Growers have reported problems with split sweet corn kernels and we also observed this defect in some of our earliest planted fresh market sweet corn in variety trials at the Georgetown research… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu This summer has been unusual in that it has been about normal for temperatures, but we have had a large number of cloudy days and, in some areas of the mid-Atlantic,… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu The high temperatures we had last week, with daytime highs 95°F and above and nighttime lows only getting down to 80°F in most of the mid-Atlantic for several days in a… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland There have been new reports of cucumber downy mildew from Wicomico, Cecil, and St. Mary’s counties in Maryland. These reports add to previous reports from Caroline county, Maryland and… Continue Reading
Nathan Kleczewski, Extension Specialist – Plant Pathology; nkleczew@udel.edu and Phillip Sylvester, Kent Co. Ag Agent; phillip@udel.edu Location: Art and Keith Wicks Farm, Rt 9, Leipsic, Kent County Greenrow: May 5 Date DSV Total DSV Accumulated P-Days Spray Interval Recommendation 5/27… Continue Reading
