Share Your Experience about the Freeze Event April 21, 2021 - From Issue: 687 By: Wenjing Guan and Liz Maynard Vegetable growers, we would like to hear your story about the freeze event on Apr. 20 and 21. What crops are you growing? Did you take protective actions? Did it[Read More…] Article Categories: Strawberry Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Climate and Weather Crop Culture
Frost and Freeze Warning April 19, 2021 - From Issue: 687 By: Wenjing Guan, Liz Maynard, Peter Hirst and Bruce Bordelon Read More There is a frost and freeze warning for 4/20, 4/21, 4/22. Vegetable growers should be prepared to take protective actions on early-planted warm-season vegetables (tomato, cucumber, pepper, summer squash, bean[Read More…] Article Categories: Strawberry Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Climate and Weather Crop Culture
Video High Tunnel Strawberry Production August 27, 2020 - From Issue: 681 By: Wenjing Guan Read More This video guides you for a tour of strawberry production in high tunnels in Indiana. Additional videos addressing specific production practices will be available in the future. Please stay tuned[Read More…] Article Categories: Strawberry Article Tags: Crop Culture Protected Culture and Season Extension
Using Low Tunnel is Promising to Increase Yield of Annual Plasticulture Strawberry Production August 27, 2020 - From Issue: 681 By: Wenjing Guan Read More Strawberries are primarily grown in matted row system in Indiana, in which bare-root strawberry plants are set in the spring. Runners are established. Fruit is first harvested in the second[Read More…] Article Categories: Strawberry Article Tags: Crop Culture Protected Culture and Season Extension
What Factors Affect Strawberry Flavor? June 17, 2020 - From Issue: 676 By: Wenjing Guan Read More Strawberries have a rich flavor; sugar, acid, phenolic content, and aroma all together make the wonderful fruit. Many factors are assumed to affect strawberry flavor. Some are supported by scientific[Read More…] Article Categories: Strawberry Article Tags: Crop Culture
Organic Aphid Control Update June 17, 2020 - From Issue: 676 By: Laura Ingwell Read More Aphids have been a particularly challenging pest to get under control in our high tunnel strawberries this year. They quickly colonized the strawberries we had growing all winter and took[Read More…] Article Categories: Strawberry Article Tags: Insect and Mite Management
Abiotic Factors may Cause Deformed Strawberry Fruit June 3, 2020 - From Issue: 675 By: Wenjing Guan Read More This article discusses the abiotic factors that may cause deformed strawberry fruit. unevenly developed strawberry fruit (Figure 1): Frost damage is probably the most common abiotic factor causing misshapen strawberry[Read More…] Article Categories: Strawberry Article Tags: Crop Culture Quality
Question for the Issue (5-21-2020) May 21, 2020 - From Issue: 674 By: Wenjing Guan Read More What is wrong with these strawberries? Article Categories: Strawberry
Organic Aphid Control Options May 20, 2020 - From Issue: 674 By: Laura Ingwell Read More Aphids have been a particularly challenging pest to get under control this spring. They quickly colonized the strawberries we had growing all winter in our high tunnels, and took off[Read More…] Article Categories: Strawberry
Botrytis Gray Mold May 20, 2020 - From Issue: 674 By: Dan Egel and Wenjing Guan Read More Botrytis gray mold can cause disease on many different host plants, enabling the fungus to easily survive and disperse between crops. Host crops include flowers such as geraniums, vegetables such[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Tomato Strawberry Article Tags: Plant Disease Management
