Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Tape traps monitored on Tuesday, June 4 showed the start of crawler activity in the Hammonton area. Life History Scales feed on plant sap, decreasing plant vigor and fruit yield. Adult scales are protected from insecticide sprays by a waxy covering. These insects are common in older canes when not removed, and located mostly under […]
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Vegetable IPM Report 6-5-13 – Click to View | Download | Print In this report: Sweet Corn Cole Crops Peppers Brown Marmorated Stinkbug Click on Map to Enlarge
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Fruit IPM Report 6-3-13 – Click to View | Download | Print In this report: Peach Apple Pear Wine Grape Scouting Calendar Blueberry Trap Counts
Continue reading...Potato Disease Forecasting Report 6-4-13 – 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...6-4-13 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...By Jim Murphy Unfortunately, we had annual bluegrass invasion into the 2011 Kentucky Bluegrass Trial, sponsored by the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program (NTEP). As a result, we are trying a relatively new herbicide,amicarbazone, in combination with paclobutrazol on the borders of the 2011 trial. Light-colored patches of grass are annual bluegrass plants in Kentucky bluegrass border […]
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