David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu There was less guessing activity on last week’s pest challenge. Remember, you cannot win Guess The Pest if you do not enter. The disease on last week’s melon transplants may have been seen earlier in… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Honeybees A female watermelon flower will need around 500-1000 pollen grains to be fertilized effectively. This will require a minimum of 8 visits by a honeybee for seeded watermelons. In seedless watermelon… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Delmarva watermelon growers have challenges from two soil borne pests, Fusarium Wilt, and Southern Root Knot nematodes. Current management practices include long rotations with non-hosts, soil applied fungicides and soil applied nematicides.… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu In the Mid-Atlantic Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations, fertilizer recommendations are given on a per acre basis. For crops grown on plastic mulch, the most common bed spacing between rows is used and… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu There have been several reports of odd-looking damage to watermelon transplants being grown in greenhouses these past couple of weeks. The damage does not appear to be cold damage per se,… Continue Reading
