Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland, jbrust@umd.edu Each year I put this information out near the end of a growing season in the hopes that growers will take a look in their fields for root knot nematode problems… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland, jbrust@umd.edu; Ben Beale, St. Mary’s Co. Extension Agent, bbeale@umd.edu; Karen Rane, Plant Diagnostician, University of Maryland rane@umd.edu Corky root is caused by the fungus Pyrenochaet lycopersici. Tomato plants affected with corky… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland, jbrust@umd.edu; Ben Beale, St. Mary’s Co. Extension Agent, bbeale@umd.edu; Karen Rane, Plant Diagnostician, University of Maryland rane@umd.edu A very unusual and seldom seen tomato foliar blight was found by an intrepid county… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Over the last few weeks in almost all of the tomato fields I’ve been in have rain check on the tomato fruit (Fig. 1). Rain check is the many, tiny concentric… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Over the past few weeks I have gotten reports of and have seen vegetable (mostly tomato, but also pepper crucifers, cucurbits and small fruit) fields throughout the Mid-Atlantic having problems with… Continue Reading
