Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Many vegetable growers in the region have lost significant number of transplants to cold conditions after planting, seed and root maggots tunneling into stems, seedling diseases such as Pythium, wind damage, and… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu May is the month where the majority of vegetable transplants are set in the field. Successful crops start with transplants that get off to a good start. The following are some considerations… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu and Mason Newark, University of Maryland; mnewark@umd.edu We hope that everyone has purchased the current version of the Commercial Vegetable Recommendation Guide for 2013 (CVRG-2013). The CVRG-2013 includes… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu and Karen Rane, Extension Specialist Entomology, University of Maryland rane@umd.edu We have seen very high populations of striped cucumber beetles on squash, pumpkins, cantaloupe, watermelon and other cucurbits over the last… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Watermelon harvest is underway on Delmarva; cantaloupe harvest started early this year, squash and cucumbers have been producing for over a month; and pumpkins and winter squash are setting fruit in earlier… Continue Reading
