Southwest Purdue Ag Center High Tunnel Tour
Date: June 13, 2018 7:00-9:00 pm Eastern Time
Location: Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center, 4369 North Purdue Road, Vincennes, IN, 47591
The SWPAC high tunnel tour will be held on the evening of June 13, 2018. Attendees will have the opportunity to see a wide range of research projects being conducted in high tunnels at SWPAC.
Topics that will be discussed include: Grafting cucumbers for season extension; Seedless cucumber and summer squash variety evaluations in a high tunnel; Different pruning and trellising systems for growing cucumber, tomato and pepper in a high tunnel; Grafting tomatoes for improved yield; Cucumber beetle management; Annual plasticultural strawberry production with an innovative low tunnel system.
Registration will begin at 6:30 pm. The tour is free, to register please call (812) 886-0198, for more information please contact Wenjing Guan (guan40@purdue.edu). This event is sponsored by North-Central Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education.
2018 Indiana Hort Society Summer Field Day
Date: June 26
Location: Garwood Orchard, LaPorte, IN
Please contact Lori Jolly-Brown at ljollybr@ purdue.edu for more information about the field day.