May 9, 2019
Michigan State Vegetable Pathology recently published the article: Broad-spectrum fungicides for vegetables with a table of fungicide recommendations for vegetables including cucumbers, melons, pumpkins and squash.
Mar 18, 2019
Watermelon standard size and mini watermelon cultigen evaluation studies were conducted at the Horticultural Crops Research Station in Clinton, NC in the summer of 2018. NC State Extension Horticultural Science Vegetable specialist Jonathan Schultheis and Research Associate Keith Starke conduct annual variety trials on watermelon and other cucurbit crops. The results of the watermelon evaluations were…
Mar 17, 2019
Crops: Orange Flesh Melon, Pumpkin, Watermelon, and Zucchini Squash
Mar 16, 2019
PDMR, Volume 13, 2019. Results of 2017 & 2018 field trials, Published in 2019. Plant Disease Management reports for cucumber, melon, pumpkin, and watermelon.
Mar 2, 2019
NC State Extension Horticultural Science Vegetable specialist, Jonathan Schultheis, and Research Associate Keith Starke conduct annual variety trials on a variety of cucurbits. An objective of the NC State extension cucurbit evaluations is to identify adapted cultivars that NC growers can grow profitably. Visit the Cucurbit Variety Trials page to view all of the cucurbit reports. The 2018 Zucchini…
Mar 1, 2019
The CucCAP extension team developed 16 extension fact sheets to provide useful information for the detection and control of diseases in cucurbits. Thirteen of the fact sheets were translated to Spanish providing important support for the Hispanic farmers’ community.
Feb 18, 2019
Extension vegetable pathologist Mary Hausbeck was joined by CucCAP plant pathologists Lina Quesada from NC State and Chris Smart from Cornell University for a series of disease management workshops in Michigan.
Feb 5, 2019
Extension Plant Pathologists Lina Quesada from NC State and Chris Smart from Cornell join Extension Specialist Mary Hausbeck for a series of Phytophthora and Downy Mildew Workshops for Vegetable Growers at Michigan State University.
Dec 7, 2018
Pickling Cucumber Sessions Mary Hausbeck from Michigan State University presented: Managing Cucumber Diseases in 2019
Nov 14, 2018
On location in Davis, California at Cucurbitaceae 2018, we sit down with the associate director of the Department of Agro-Environmental Sciences at University of Puerto Rico to talk about food security and how an organization called the CucCAP is helping. Read More Listen to the podcast here