David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Cole crops Cabbage aphid populations are increasing. Imported cabbageworm is very active, along with lower populations of many other cabbage pests. We even had a cutworm destroy the growing point in one of our plot… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu; Karen Rane, University of Maryland Diagnostic Lab Spinach crops this season have had a hard time, with red legged winter mites, spinach crown mites, leaf miner issues and now plants in… Continue Reading
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
Karen Rane, Plant Diagnostician, University of Maryland rane@umd.edu; Alan Leslie, UME Educator and Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland, jbrust@umd.edu Winter crops of spinach, crucifers and other leafy produce have been growing nicely throughout most of this winter,… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland, jbrust@umd.edu The red legged winter mite, Penthaleus dorsalis has been found in more high tunnels (HTs) growing leafy greens this past winter for the 4th year in a row. Most of the… Continue Reading
