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Gardener Assistance Needed with Monitoring Downy Mildews Affecting Cucurbit Plants and Basil

Thank you to Margaret Tuttle McGrath with the Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center for providing the following content and opportunity! Occurrence of two important diseases is being monitored to be able to inform farmers, so they know when preventive fungicide applications are warranted, and to increase knowledge about these diseases. Occurrence of these…Continue Reading Gardener Assistance Needed with Monitoring Downy Mildews Affecting Cucurbit Plants and Basil

Help! Gardener Assistance Needed with Monitoring Downy Mildews

Thank you to Margaret Tuttle McGrath with the Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center for providing the following content and opportunity! Extension plant pathologists from across the region are seeking gardener assistance with monitoring downy mildews affecting cucurbit plants and basil. Cucurbits include cucumber, winter squash, summer squash, watermelon, and assorted gourds. Occurrence of…Continue Reading Help! Gardener Assistance Needed with Monitoring Downy Mildews

Bad news for basil

Planning on pesto?  Basil downy mildew can leave you with a pot of pasta and no sauce – and we have had reports of it in NY already this summer. Basil downy mildew is a disease that can survive on the seed and infect the plant as soon as it germinates.  It can also travel…Continue Reading Bad news for basil

Bad News for Basil

Planning on pesto?  Basil downy mildew can leave you with a pot of pasta and no sauce. Basil downy mildew is a disease that can survive on the seed and infect the plant as soon as it germinates.  It can also travel by airborne spores and infect plants that started out clean.  It only affects…Continue Reading Bad News for Basil