Emmalea Ernest, Extension Fruit & Vegetable Specialist; emmalea@udel.edu Proper harvest and post-harvest handling are important for fall harvested crops intended for extended season sales. For all crops discussed below, minimizing injury during harvest, and storing only disease-free produce is important… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu This season sweet potatoes have shown feeding damage from either wireworms or white grubs. Wireworms bore shallow holes into the surface of sweet potato roots. Multiple species of wireworm can attack… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Plantings for late summer and fall harvested vegetables will be underway in the next few weeks. Timing these plantings can be a challenge, especially where multiple harvests are needed. Plantings from early… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Sweet potatoes for processing are being grown on Delmarva in larger acreages. These are dug using a modified potato digger, conveyed to trucks, and then are transported to the processing plant. In… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Samples of sweet potatoes from southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore have shown feeding damage from either wireworms or white grubs. Wireworms bore shallow holes into the surface of sweet potato… Continue Reading
