Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu Tomato Late Blight Tomato transplants were found at a garden center in northeast Pennsylvania last Friday (June 8) that were infected with late blight. We don’t know the… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Another disease we might be seeing now and in the next week or so is late blight. The weather conditions of the past week have been favorable for its development: cool… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu Late blight has been confirmed in a greenhouse in Garrett County, the far western county in Maryland. Delaware potatoes and tomatoes are not at imminent risk at this… Continue Reading
Nathan Kleczewski, Extension Specialist – Plant Pathology; nkleczew@udel.edu Kevin Brinson and I worked with Bill Fry and Ian Small at Cornell to develop a late blight fungicide application tool for Delaware. The tool is for use after fungicide applications have… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu As for all crops, good disease management principles should be used for tomato diseases. These practices include field rotation with nonrelated crops, site selection, and the use of… Continue Reading
