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
Seedless cucumber production in high tunnels will be the highlight of this year’s event.
- You will see 16 cucumber varieties grown in a high tunnel, and be able to taste them.
- We will share with you yield results of grafted cucumber plants that have started to produce since middle April in an unheated high tunnel.
- You will also see cucumbers grown in the high tunnels with different pruning and trellising systems.
- Entomologist Laura Ingwell will join us at the event to discuss cucumber beetle management approaches.
Other things you will see at this event include: summer squashes growing in a high tunnel; different pruning and trellising systems for growing tomato and pepper; annual strawberry production with low tunnel systems.
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 Tour
Date: June 26, 2018
Location: Garwood Orchards, 5911 W 50 South, LaPorte, IN 46350
Greenhouse and Indoor Hydroponics Workshop
Date: Sep. 5, 2018
Location: 625 Agriculture Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907
