Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Row cover management in plasticulture strawberries has been difficult this year due to the mild winter. In normal winters, row covers applied in December serve as winter protection to limit stand losses,… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu By now everyone should know that the newest invasive pest, the spotted wing drosophila (SWD), is here in the mid-Atlantic. It was found heavily infesting blackberries and raspberries in central Maryland… Continue Reading
Joanne Whalen, Extension IPM Specialist; jwhalen@udel.edu We finished our 2011 SWD monitoring activities in late September in a commercial vineyard and we did not detect any SWD adults in our traps. However, traps that were set out near the Milford… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu With the mild winter, many cover crops have not fully winter killed including fall planted spring oats, forage radish, and some mustard species. For vegetable growers seeking to have early areas for… 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
