Upcoming Events – Pinney Purdue Vegetable Field Day and Sweet Corn Sampler July 9, 2015 - From Issue: 601 By: Liz Maynard Read More Pinney Purdue Vegetable Field Day and Sweet Corn Sampler. Thursday, August 13, 2015. 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. CDT. Pinney Purdue Ag Center, 11402 S. County Line Rd., Wanatah, IN.[Read More…] Article Categories: Corn Sweet Corn Solanaceous Crops Peppers Tomato Article Tags: Crop Culture Events Organic Production Pests and Pest Management – General Protected Culture and Season Extension Soil Fertility and Fertilizers
Nitrogen Loss from Wet Soils June 23, 2015 - From Issue: 600 By: Liz Maynard High rainfall amounts lead to loss of nitrogen from the soil. Sometimes the loss is great enough that a crop will benefit from additional nitrogen application. This article will describe[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Climate and Weather Crop Culture Soil Fertility and Fertilizers
Boiler Hop Yard Update June 14, 2015 - From Issue: 599 By: Clayton J Nevins Read More Purdue University’s Boiler Hop Yard has started its second growing season with the hopes of providing Indiana growers with science-based recommendations for hop production in the Midwest. With summer rapidly[Read More…] Article Categories: Other Specialty Crops Hops Article Tags: Crop Culture Plant Disease Management Soil Fertility and Fertilizers Special Cultural Practices
Managing Cover Crops in Spring April 14, 2015 - From Issue: 595 By: Liz Maynard and Rick Foster Cover crops should be killed at least a couple of weeks before planting vegetables. That will give the cover time to partially decompose, and time for any cutworm larvae that[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Crop Culture Soil Fertility and Fertilizers
Too Much Fertilizer for Transplants? March 18, 2015 - From Issue: 594 By: Liz Maynard Read More Sometimes newly transplanted crops don’t take off like we’d expect. Consider the newly transplanted tomato seedlings in these images. In Figure 1, lower leaves are chlorotic (yellow) and leaflet edges[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Tomato Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Crop Culture Soil Fertility and Fertilizers Transplant Production