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28:16

Problems with Pollination in High Tunnel Tomatoes

July 2, 2020Emmalea Garver Ernest

Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Over the last month I have received reports from high tunnel (HT) growers that were seeing flower abscission due to poor pollination in their tomatoes (Fig. 1). Some of these reports… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 28:16, abiotic stress, cold damage, heat stress, high tunnel, pollination, pollinators, tomato

Vegetable Crop Insect Scouting

July 2, 2020Emmalea Garver Ernest

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Cucurbits Watermelons are fairly quiet right now. Continue scouting for spider mites. Recent hot dry weather will stimulate mite reproduction, and we are seeing some increase, though not at threshold level, in fields treated earlier… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 28:16, vegetable insect scouting

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