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Good Time to Check for Root Knot Nematodes in Vegetables

September 24, 2021kgyoung

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 →

Vegetable Crops 29:27, cucumber, root knot nematode, tomato, watermelon

Corky Root Disease in Tomatoes

August 20, 2021kgyoung

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 →

Vegetable Crops 29:22, corky root disease, tomato

Unusual Foliar Blight Found in Southern Maryland Organic Tomatoes

August 20, 2021kgyoung

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 →

Vegetable Crops 29:22, Rhizoctonia solani, tomato

Rain Check Common in Tomato Fields This Season

August 6, 2021cmanneri

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 →

Vegetable Crops 29:20, physiological disorders, tomato

Thrips Damage to Some Vegetable Fields Severe This Growing Season

August 6, 2021cmanneri

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 →

Vegetable Crops 29:20, pepper, thrips, tomato

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