- Cucumber/Pickles: Angular leaf spot
- Lettuce: Bacterial leaf blight; Bottom Rot
- Tomato: Bacterial spot and speck
- Strawberry: Leather rot; Angular leaf spot
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Vegetable Disease Update 5-24-13
Vegetable Diseases of the Week 5-24-13
![Leather rot of strawberry](https://plant-pest-advisory.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Strawberry-Leather-rot-2013-300x235.jpg)
Leather rot of immature strawberry fruit
![Bacterial leaf blight of romaine lettuce](https://plant-pest-advisory.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Romaine-Bacterial-Leaf-blight-20131-300x225.jpg)
Bacterial leaf blight of romaine lettuce
Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 5/22/13
- Sweet Corn
- Cole Crops
- Peppers
- Brown Marmorated Stinkbug
- Tomatoes
Pepper Weevil Alert
Pepper weevil adults have been found now in four non-farm locations in south Jersey. In each instance the trapped weevils were likely brought into the state on, or in, peppers from the southern US or Mexico. [Read more…]
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 Diseases of the Week – 5/17/13
- Cabbage
- Strawberry
- Processing Tomato Transplants