Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu This unseasonably cool moist spring has been perfect weather for an old pest of early planted seeds and bulbs—the seed corn maggot Delia platura (SCM) and other seed maggots such as… 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
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu No-Till Processing Vegetables There is increased interest in no-till production of processing vegetables. No-till production is possible for most of our common processing vegetables. However, success will depend upon a number of… Continue Reading
Bob Mulrooney, Extension Plant Pathologist; bobmul@udel.edu With the impending hurricane we will probably see large amounts of rainfall. For vine crops fields with a history of Phytophthora fruit rot it will mean more Phytophthora fruit rot if any marketable watermelon… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu We recently had a suspected case of boron toxicity in snap beans. Boron toxicity is common in western states where boron levels in soils or irrigation water are high. In the east,… Continue Reading
