Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu & Emmalea Ernest, Extension Associate-Vegetable Crops; emmalea@udel.edu Asparagus harvest began last week which is four weeks early. Pea planting is ahead of schedule with heat units accumulating much more rapidly than the… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Pea planting has started across the region. A common problem with early pea plantings is compaction and resulting yield losses, particularly where field operations were performed when soils were too wet. Much… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Processing vegetable acres will be up this year in Delaware and on Delmarva including peas, lima beans, and sweet corn. Pickle acreage will remain steady. This increase in acres is largely due… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu 2011 was a “mixed bag” for processing vegetable growers in Delaware. The pea planting season started out slow with a wet and cold March. April plantings went in on-time. There was a… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Ag Agent, Kent Co.; gcjohn@udel.edu Vegetable and fruit growers would rather have a dry year than a wet one. Keeping irrigation going might be a problem in the dry year, but vegetable and fruit crops have better… Continue Reading
