Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Over the last 2 years – hot and dry in 2012 and cool and wet in 2013 – tomatoes grown in high tunnels have outperformed field tomatoes. The high tunnel environment provides… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Late plantings of summer vegetables will go in the field in July and early August. Cool season crops will also be planted at this time for fall harvest. The following are some… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Last week I saw several high tunnel tomatoes with moderate to severe two-spotted spider mite (TSSM) Tetranychus urticae infestations (Fig. 1). These pests vary in color from white to yellow to… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu In the last week I have seen tomatoes from different counties in Maryland that had the same unusual disease symptoms, called tomato pith necrosis. Although most of the problem tomatoes were… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu I spent 5 years working as an Extension agent in a tropical country with small scale vegetable growers and teaching agricultural students at a technical school. One of the most interesting production… Continue Reading
