- Cucumber/Pickles: Angular leaf spot
- Lettuce: Bacterial leaf blight; Bottom Rot
- Tomato: Bacterial spot and speck
- Strawberry: Leather rot; Angular leaf spot
Vegetable Disease Update 5-24-13
Potato Disease Forecasting Report 5-14-13 (updated)
5-14-13 Potato Report Updated report. Sorry folks, the information at the bottom of the original 5/14/13 report was not intended. No reports of Late blight in NJ.
Welcome to the new potato report for 2013! As always, we will be tracking DSVs for Late blight development and calculating P-days for initiating the first early blight fungicide application. Remember the threshold for P-days is 300! Once 300 P-days is reached for your location early blight fungicide applications should be initiated.
Protecting against Pythium and Phytophthora blight
With the wet weather we’ve experienced in New Jersey over the weekend and the warm temperatures to follow this coming week Phytophthora blight (P. capsici) and Pythium are likely to start showing up in pepper, tomato, and cucurbit fields. [Read more…]
Vegetable Disease Update – 5/17/13
This past week there were a few reported cases of bacteria causing problems in tomato transplants, along with an isolated case of pith necrosis from the field as well as bacteria causing issues in strawberry. There have been no reports of late blight or cucurbit downy mildew in the region to date. [Read more…]