Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu The disease tomato pith necrosis was one that we used to only sporadically find in our tomato fields, but in the last 6-8 years it has become a much more consistent… Continue Reading
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
