Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports. A Great Resource for Growers. April 4, 2023 - From Issue: 716 By: Petrus Langenhoven Read More The Midwest Vegetable Trial Report series includes reports of applied research relevant to vegetable and melon production in the midwestern U.S. The purpose of the series is to publish results[Read More…] Article Categories: Lettuce Peppers Tomato Pumpkins Squash Watermelon Strawberry Article Tags: Artificial Soils and Hydroponics Greenhouses & High Tunnels Reports Trials Varieties
Purdue Fruit and Vegetable Field Day – July 20, 2023 March 15, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Petrus Langenhoven Read More Purdue Extension presented its first Fruit, Vegetable and Hemp Field Day post-pandemic at the Meigs Ag Center in July 2022. Extension Specialists and Graduate Students presented specialty crop research to[Read More…] Article Categories: Carrots Sweet Potato Collards Peppers Potatoes Pumpkins Watermelon Strawberry Article Tags: Field Day Fruit Meigs PAC Research Vegetables
Small Farm Education Field Day – July 27, 2023 March 15, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Petrus Langenhoven Read More The 2022 Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day was a big success. Nearly 72% of attendees reported that they learned something new. Nearly half indicated they plan to adopt recommended[Read More…] Article Categories: Beans (Green, Wax, Snap) Beets Carrots Garlic Onions Cabbage Cucumbers Squash Eggplant Peppers Potatoes Tomato Swiss Chard Article Tags: Field Day Small Farms
Anthracnose Management in Peppers – the Old and the New March 14, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Dan Egel Read More A new strain of the disease anthracnose of pepper has been detected in South Carolina and Ontario, Canada. Although this disease has not been found in Indiana, the article reprinted[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Peppers Article Tags: Plant Disease Management
Selecting Vegetable Varieties for your Farm February 22, 2023 - From Issue: 714 By: Petrus Langenhoven Are you still thinking about varieties for the upcoming season? Purdue has been keeping a record of vegetable variety trials in the Midwest since 1999. The Midwest Vegetable Trial Report[Read More…] Article Categories: Cucumbers Pumpkins Squash Watermelon Peppers Sweet Corn Article Tags: Production Management Varieties
Irrigation Demonstration Update July Aug. 24, 2022, Pinney Purdue Ag Center. August 25, 2022 - From Issue: 711 By: Liz Maynard Read More At Pinney Purdue (PPAC) bell peppers were harvested for the first time on August 15. Plants appear a little larger in the irrigated plots than in the unirrigated plots, but[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Peppers Article Tags: Irrigation
Unmarketable Bell Peppers July 14, 2022 - From Issue: 708 By: Wenjing Guan Read More We observed a large amount of unmarketable pepper fruit hanging on the plants during on-farm visits and at the research farms recently. Damage appears on the sides or at the[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Peppers Article Tags: physiological disorder Production Management
Season Extension Strategies—What I learned in a CA trip June 2, 2022 - From Issue: 705 By: Wenjing Guan Read More Thanks to my University of California Cooperative Extension colleagues, I visited central valley vegetable production last week. Undoubtedly, I learned a lot on this trip. I want to share what[Read More…] Article Categories: Peppers Watermelon Article Tags: Crop Culture Protected Culture and Season Extension
Bell Pepper Varieties for Phytophthora Resistance March 15, 2022 - From Issue: 700 By: Wenjing Guan and Dan Egel Read More Phytophthora blight caused by the pathogen Phytophthora capsici is one of the most important diseases in pepper production (Figure 1). The disease is difficult to control once established in a[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Peppers Article Tags: Plant Disease Management
Have You Selected Your Sweet Pepper Varieties Yet? March 24, 2021 - From Issue: 685 By: Petrus Langenhoven Read More There is still time to select sweet pepper varieties for this summer. During the 2020 growing season, I evaluated a new batch of five sweet bell pepper varieties. I also[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Peppers Article Tags: Greenhouses & High Tunnels Varieties
