Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu Late blight has been confirmed on tomatoes in Montgomery County, MD. This is the first positive late blight in Maryland this year. We have sent the sample for… Continue Reading
Nathan Kleczewski, Extension Specialist – Plant Pathology; nkleczew@udel.edu Last week there was a report of late blight in a tomato greenhouse operation in Berkeley Spring, West Virginia. This should not pose a threat to Delaware growers at the current time.… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu Currently there are no confirmed reports of late blight on either tomato or potato outside of Florida. However, there is one unconfirmed report of a tomato greenhouse outbreak… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu Late blight on tomato is now confirmed in Maryland (Baltimore County). We do not yet know what strain or genotype it is. Until additional information is available, growers… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu Late blight has been found on potato in central New Jersey. The grower was applying preventative fungicides, however lesions occurred in a part of the field that the… Continue Reading
