Nate Bruce, Farm Business Management Specialist, nsbruce@udel.edu Enterprise budgets for processing vegetables have been updated with prices and information for 2022. You can use these budgets to estimate your production costs and returns for several different crops: pickling cucumbers, sweet… Continue Reading
Jake Jones, Extension Agriculture Agent, Kent County; jgjones@udel.edu Cucurbit downy mildew was found in pickling cucumbers in Federalsburg, Maryland on Thursday, June 17, 2021. One day prior it was found in New Jersey in pickling cucumbers. With the disease now… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Most cucurbit crops including cantaloupes, watermelons, squashes, pumpkins, and cucumbers produce separate male and female flowers (cantaloupes have some perfect flowers). The male flower produces the pollen that must be transferred to… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Cucumbers are a popular crop grown throughout Delmarva for both fresh market (slicers, mini) and processing (pickles). There are three flowering or fruiting types. Monecious cucumbers have both male and female flowers… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu and Emmalea Ernest, Associate Scientist, Vegetable Crops emmalea@udel.edu Heavy rains after planting, cold temperatures, wind damage, and sandblasting have caused stand reductions in some sweet corn plantings. When stands are reduced, vegetable… Continue Reading
