University of Delaware
Weekly Crop Update
  • UD Cooperative Extension Home
Weekly Crop Update
from UD Cooperative Extension
Menu Close
  • Current Issue
  • About WCU
  • Issue & Weather Archive
  • Subscribe

brambles

Rethink Rainsheltering

May 1, 2020Emmalea Garver Ernest

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 →

Fruit Crops 28:7, abiotic stress, blueberries, brambles, cherry, grapes, low tunnel, rainshelter, strawberry

Spotted Wing Drosophila Trapping Update

July 15, 2016Emmalea Garver Ernest

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.

Fruit Crops 24:17, blackberries, blueberry, brambles, raspberry, spotted wing drosophila

Orange Rust on Brambles – An Ongoing Saga

June 10, 2016Emmalea Garver Ernest

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 →

Fruit Crops 24:12, blackberries, brambles, raspberry

Revisiting Fruit Losses Due to the Late Freeze and Fruit Drop in Tree Fruits

May 13, 2016Emmalea Garver Ernest

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 →

Fruit Crops 24:8, apple, blueberry, brambles, cherry, nectarine, peaches, pears, tree fruit

Site Selection for Fruit Plantings

August 7, 2015Emmalea Garver Ernest

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 →

Fruit Crops 23:20, apple, blackberries, blueberry, brambles, grapes, nectarine, peaches, plum

Post navigation

← Older Articles

Additional Resources

  • Cooperative Extension Home
  • Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations
  • Insect Sampling and Action Thresholds
  • Insect Trapping Programs
  • Integrated Weed Management
  • Extension Vegetable & Fruit Program
  • UD Extension Factsheets
  • DEOS Weather Station Data
  • NEWA Weather & Models

Join us on social media!

 

 

Admin

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress at UD
© 2023 Weekly Crop Update. All rights reserved.
Fashionista by aThemes
UD
  • Go to the UD twitter page (external link)>
  • Go to the UD facebook page (external link)>
  • Go to the UD instagram page (external link)>
  • Go to the UD youtube page (external link)>
  • Go to the UD pintrest page (external link)>
  • Go to the UD linkedin page (external link)>
  • ©   University of Delaware
  • Comments
  • Legal Notices
  • Accessibility Notice