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Problems with Pollination in High Tunnel Tomatoes

July 2, 2020Emmalea Garver Ernest

Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Over the last month I have received reports from high tunnel (HT) growers that were seeing flower abscission due to poor pollination in their tomatoes (Fig. 1). Some of these reports… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 28:16, abiotic stress, cold damage, heat stress, high tunnel, pollination, pollinators, tomato

Cold Damage to High Tunnel and Greenhouse Vegetables

May 1, 2020Emmalea Garver Ernest

Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Last week Gordon Johnson had an article talking about cold damage to peas and there also has been some cold damage and weather induced damage to vegetables in high tunnels and… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 28:7, abiotic stress, cold damage, tomato, watermelon

Problems with Pollination in High Tunnel Tomatoes

May 4, 2018Emmalea Garver Ernest

Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Some mid-Atlantic growers are seeing excessive tomato blossom drop in their high tunnels (HTs). Flowers are forming but then abscising from the plant (Fig. 1). In a few of the high… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 26:6, abiotic stress, bumble bee, cold damage, heat stress, high tunnel, pollination, tomato

Cold Weather and Small Grains

December 15, 2017Emmalea Garver Ernest

Jarrod O. Miller, Extension Agronomist, jarrod@udel.edu If you ended up with a range in planting dates for your small grains this year, it is a good time to scout your fields to see what spring may look like. So far… Continue Reading →

Agronomic Crops abiotic stress, barley, cold damage, DEC2017, small grain, wheat

Cold Effects on Early Transplanted Vegetables

April 18, 2008cmanneri

Gordon Johnson, Extension Ag Agent, Kent Co.; gcjohn@udel.edu The frost we had this week should remind growers that as you try to get a jump on the growing season, cold weather effects need to be considered. Over the years, many… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized 16:5, cold damage, transplant production, transplanting

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