Alliums: Reports of poor garlic growth and stand this spring due to poor quality seed stock planted in fall. A variety of factors contribute to this, including eriophyid mite damage, fusarium, and winter injury from freezing and thawing. As first cutting of hay wraps up and early grains are taken for straw or drying down, Read More…
Tag: Cucurbit
ENYCHP Weekly Vegetable Pest Update
May 24, 2023 Alliums: Seed corn maggot activity has significantly slowed down or stopped in the Hudson Valley and plants are recovering from injury. The spring Allium leafminer adult flight has peaked or stopped in the Hudson Valley. Growers using row-cover to protect onions should keep covers on to protect from onion maggot flies that are Read More…
Vegetables: Cucurbit Downy Mildew
Chuck Bornt, Senior Extension Associate, CCE Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture Program If you are growing cantaloupes, cucumbers or any other kind of vine crop, you know that Cucurbit Downy Mildew has become an annual pest that we have to deal with. In the last few years, a lot of effort has gone into breeding Read More…
Start Scouting Those Cucumbers NOW!
by Chuck Bornt, 6/27/22 Those of you that are frequent readers of vegetable newsletters know that over the last bunch of years, we have been battling a new strain or “clades” of Cucurbit Downy Mildew. In the past, we would see it occasionally, but these new clade types have become annual occurrences especially in cucumbers Read More…