David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu I apologize for not putting the photo of last week’s pest picture on the google form. This one was tricky, and caused me to scratch my head for a bit because I wanted to call… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Last week several fields were found with one or more of the big 3 for mid-summer pests in tomato. These disease and insect pests do well in hot weather, although two… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu To no one’s surprise this week has seen a great number of problems pop-up in tomato fields throughout our area. The first, of course, has been disease with bacterial and fungal… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu There are several bacterial diseases that are turning up in many Maryland tomato fields this year. The wet weather we had in June (2-4X as much rain as normal) resulted in… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu As for all crops, good disease management principles should be used for tomato diseases. These practices include field rotation with nonrelated crops, site selection, and the use of… Continue Reading
