Fertility for the Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center Tomato Trial Last year at the Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center (SWPAC) we conducted a tomato high tunnel trial described here. In this article, I would like to talk about the trial[Read More…]
Cucurbit Production in Indiana: 1925 and 2013 In December 2014, I described the ‘Yearbook of Agriculture, 1928”. In that blog, I wrote about processing tomato production in 1925 and 2013 (the ‘Yearbook of Agriculture, 1928’ lists data[Read More…]
How Many Staked Tomatoes Should I Put in My High Tunnel? Over the last several years, the number of questions I have had about tomato production in high tunnels has increased dramatically. Since I am a plant pathologist, most of the[Read More…]
Indiana’s Processing Tomato Industry in 1928 and 2013. While visiting my son in Lincoln, Nebraska this past summer, I had the chance to browse in a second hand store.I felt myself drawn to the book section where I[Read More…]
An Update on the Use of Copper Products for Managing Bacterial Spot of Tomato For 100 years bacterial spot has been causing huge losses for tomato growers worldwide. For 100 years products containing copper have held the key to controlling this devastating tomato disease.[Read More…]
Tomato Fruit Lesions The photos that accompany this article are of lesions caused by various diseases that occur on tomato fruit. The list includes diseases I commonly see in Indiana, so the list[Read More…]
Late Season Fusarium Wilt of Watermelon Over the past few weeks, I have observed several watermelon fields with relatively large areas of wilted plants.There can be several reasons for such symptoms.In the article below, I will[Read More…]
Preparing for Freezing Temperatures in the Tomato High Tunnel The low tonight is forecasted to be 28 F. In preparation, we placed clear plastic over each row. This type of plastic is not vented. Therefore, one must be very[Read More…]
