Vegetable IPM Report 8-07-13 – Click to View | Download | Print Current Week’s Pest Maps – Available Maps for the week are highlighted European Corn Borer Map Corn Earworm Blacklight Map Corn Earworm Pheromone Map Brown Marmorated Stinkbug Map Vegetable IPM Pest Map Archive
Continue reading...August 6, 2013 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, and Atanas Atanassov
Fruit IPM Report: Week Ending 8/3/13
Fruit IPM Report 8-3-13 – Click to View | Download | Print In this report: Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Peach Apple Grape Scouting Calendar Blueberry Trap Counts
Continue reading...August 6, 2013 Andy Wyenandt
Cucurbit downy mildew confirmed on pumpkin in Morris County – 8/6/13
Cucurbit downy mildew has been reported on pumpkin in Morris County. This is the first report of downy mildew on pumpkin this growing season. Cucurbit downy mildew has also been showing up on cucurbit crops (other than cucumber) in other states this past week. All cucurbit crops in New Jersey are at risk for downy […]
Continue reading...August 5, 2013 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato Disease Forecasting Report 8-6-13
Potato Disease Forecasting Report 8-6-13 – Click to Download We will be tracking DSVs for Late blight development and calculating P-days for initiating the first early blight fungicide application. The first late blight fungicide application is recommended once 18 DSVs accumulate from green row. Green row typically occurs around the first week in May in southern […]
Continue reading...August 5, 2013 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Tomato Disease Forecasting Report 8-6-13
8-6-13 Tomato Report – Click to Download Disease severity values (DSVs) for early blight, septoria leaf spot, and tomato anthracnose development are determined daily based on leaf wetness (due to rainfall, dew) and air temperature. On a daily basis DSV values can range from 0 to 4 where 0 = no chance for disease development […]
Continue reading...August 5, 2013 Richard Buckley
Touch of Gray
Everybody keeps asking me “any gray leaf spot yet?” And I answer, “why yes, but not where you think.” Gray leaf spot was diagnosed last week on samples of Hakonechloa that were submitted from a central New Jersey nursery grower.
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