UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SYSTEM AND DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SCIENCE

COMMERCIAL VEGETABLE AND FRUIT CROPS NEWSLETTER             VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2  --  MAY 2005

IN THIS ISSUE

Callisto (Mestrione) Herbicide
Registered for Use in Sweet Corn……………..…....………..…1

Plectosporium Blight and New Spray
Recommendations for 2005 ………………….............................2-4

Physical Properties of Soil…..…..………....................…….......4-5

Planning Bored (Apple Borers)……………................….…….6-7

Cucurbit Yellow Vine Disease (CYVD) in Connecticut….....…7

Cane Anthracnose Found in Some Blueberry Fields…........…8

Blueberry Freeze Injury or Phomopsis?...………….............…..8

Mummy Berry Fungicide Update……………..…................…...8

A Question of Scale (San Jose Scale in Orchards)……........…9

Downy Mildew On Cucurbits in the South……….…...............9

Editors / Contributors
Jude Boucher, Commercial Vegetable Crops, UConn Coop. Extension
Lorraine Los, Commercial Fruit Crops, UConn Dept. of Plant Science
Kristen Wilmer, Research Assistant, UConn Dept. of Plant Science

University of Connecticut Pest Messages
Can Help Keep You Prepared

Weekly Vegetable Pest Message--Updated every Friday afternoon from June to September.  They are available online at http://www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/veg/htms/pestmsg.htm or by calling the recorded message at (860) 870-6954.

Weekly Fruit Pest Message--Updated weekly starting in April and continuing at least through primary apple scab season.  To receive Fruit Messages by email contact Lorraine Los at (860) 486-6449 or Lorraine.Los@uconn.edu.  They are available online at http://www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/fruit/htms/appstmsg.htm. 

Update for Greenhouse Growers--Updated weekly during seasons of high pest pressure and biweekly during seasons of low pest pressure throughout the year.  To receive Greenhouse Updates by email contact Leanne Pundt at (860) 626-6240 or Leanne.Pundt@uconn.edu.  They are available online at http://www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/greenhs/htms/ghsemsg.htm.
Note:  These pest messages are prepared for commercial growers.  Recommendations may not be practical or legal for homeowners.

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