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Vegetable Disease Update 5-24-13

  • 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 Diseases of the Week 5-24-13

Leather rot of immature strawberry fruit

Bacterial leaf blight of romaine lettuce

Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 5/22/13

  • Sweet Corn
  • Cole Crops
  • Peppers
  • Brown Marmorated Stinkbug
  • Tomatoes

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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

White Mold on Cabbage

White Mold of Cabbage

Note white fungal growth and
black sclerotia developing at plant base.

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