Rose Ogutu, Horticulture Specialist, Delaware State University rogutu@desu.edu High tunnels allow growers to produce crops earlier and later in a normal growing season. They create an environment one hardiness zone warmer than the field. Any crop can be grown in… Continue Reading
Jacquelyn Marchese, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology & Wildlife Ecology marchese@udel.edu; Deborah Delaney, Assistant Professor Entomology & Wildlife Ecology, dadelane@udel.edu; Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist, gcjohn@udel.edu A common native pollinator in Delaware is the Common Eastern Bumble Bee… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu; Mason Newark, University of Maryland; mnewark@umd.edu Gummy stem blight (caused by Didymella bryoniae) is the most important foliar disease of watermelon in Maryland and Delaware. The disease affects… Continue Reading
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
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Each year we see problems with low bed pH under plastic mulch. This can result in a range of problems including poor growth, manganese toxicities, calcium and magnesium deficiencies, poor fruit quality,… Continue Reading
