Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu and Emmalea Ernest, Associate Scientist – Vegetable Crops; emmalea@udel.edu As the climate is expected to become wetter with more extreme rainfall events, losses of fruit crops to excess rain will become more… Continue Reading
Joanne Whalen, Extension IPM Specialist; jwhalen@udel.edu Trap catches for Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) adults remain constant. Small fruit growers (especially bramble and blueberry growers) will need to maintain their spray schedules for this very damaging insect pest.
Cassandra Swett, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist – Berry Pathology, University of Maryland and Penn State University; clswett@umd.edu We all get a little rusty as we get older, but one thing that we don’t want to see getting rusty is… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu and Emmalea Ernest, Associate Scientist – Vegetable Crops; emmalea@udel.edu Losses in tree fruits due to the late freeze are now more obvious. As one grower put it “a light crop becomes even… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu There has been an increase in interest in planting fruits in Delaware. This is a positive trend that matches the interest in buying local and can also provide local fruit to the… Continue Reading
