New Hampshire Vegetable, Berry and Tree Fruit Newsletter
This newsletter is a cooperative effort of specialists and educators of UNH Cooperative Extension. It’s purpose is to keep you updated on issues and research related to growing vegetable & fruit crops in NH. The newsletter is published monthly from January through the end of summer, with a brief hiatus in the fall.
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- January 2012
- Wind Prediction Tools: Change Tunnel Plastic when it's calm
- High Tunnel Tomato Growers' Farmer to Farmer Session
- New Feature: Research Briefs
- 2012-2013 New England Vegetable Management Guide Now Available
- Webinars on Cold-Climate Viticulture and Enology
- Upcoming Meetings & Events
- April 2012
- Getting Ready for Spotted Wing Drosophila
- New High Tunnel Soil Test
- Frost Protection for Berries
- Research Briefs: High Tunnel Raspberries
- Upcoming Meetings & Events
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- January 2011
- Winter Harvest & Sales Survey
- Pruning Blueberries
- Greenhouse Cucumber Variety Trial
- April 2011
- NH Grower Listserv
- Bloat Nematode: Garlic (and Onion) Pest
- Blueberry Mummyberry and Fertilization
- New Items on Our Website
- May 2011
- Late Blight Update
- Berries in Tunnels
- Blossom End Rot
- Report Bird Damage to Corn Seedlings
- June 2011
- NH Alert: Garlic Bloat Nematode
- Striped Cucumber Beetles
- Update on use of Chilean Nitrate for ORganic Growers
- A Quick Note on Cabbage Maggot
- Pesticide Use in High Tunnels
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2010 Newsletters
- New NRCS High Tunnel Funding Opportunity
- Small Fruit Webinars - Archived
- Farm Promotion Options
- Late Blight Bulletin Available
- Pumpkin Pollinators
- Too Cold for Fruit Buds?
- The FDA Seeks Comments on Food Safety Legislation
- Seedcorn Maggots
- An Early Spring
- Late Blight Around, But Not Here.
- Cabbage and Onion Maggots
- New Organic Production Guides Available
- Pest and Disease Update
- Some Summer Disorders
- Hopperburn
- Pesticides in Backpack Sprayers & Small Plantings
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2009 Newsletters
- New Fruit Blog - Bill Lord
- 2008 UNH Vegetable Research Mini-Update
- Marketing in Tough Times
- Review of Strawberry Fertilization
- Organic Strawberry Production Fact Sheet Available
- NRCS Assistance for NH Growers
- Biodegradable Mulch: Is It for You?
- Wireworms
- Managing Powdery Mildew on Cucurbits
- Expect and Prepare for Downy Mildew in Basil
- Tissue Testing for Fruit Crops
- Late Blight Alert
- Blueberry Maggot
- Pesticide Disposal Program
- What to do with a Field Infected with Late Blight
- Pesticide Disposal Program - Update
- SARE Farmer & Partnership Grants
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2008 Newsletters
- Winter Chores in the Orchard
- Plan Ahead for Small Fruit Planting
- SARE Grower Grant Report: Sweetpotatoes and Nitrogen Needs
- Kocide No Longer OMRI Listed
- Sweetpotato Research Update
- New England Farm Workers' Council
- NH IPM Newsletter Available
- Fruit Growers Resources
- Flea Beetles in Brassica
- Blueberries: Mummyberry and Fertilization
- Success with Cantaloupes
- Correction to Small Fruit Guide
- Agricultural Water Use Reporting in NH
- Buckwheat Cover Crop Handbook
- Of Pomes and Drupes - Simmering Summer Stuff
- Winter Sprouting Broccoli: A Crop to Consider?
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2007 Newsletters
- Apple Pruning Time?
- Research Report: Sweetpotato Variety Trial
- NH Water Use Reporting
- Research Report: Colored Pepper Variety Trial
- Indar Section 3 Label for Blueberries
- Of Pomes and Stones: Late Winter Thoughts
- Perimeter Trap Cropping for Pepper Maggot
- Grower Resources - Tree Fruit, Veggies, Greenhouses...
- SARE Supports Farmers-driven Research on NH Farms
- Services to Support Seasonal or Temporary Farm Workers or their Children
- OP Insecticides Update - EPA final Decision on Phosmet, AZM
- Sweet Corn European Corn Borer - Fall Armyworm Reduced-risk Insecticide Trials
- Of Pomes and Stones: Blooming Ideas
- Keeping Birds at Bay
- Organic Bait Options for Slug & Snail Control
- Fire Blight in Apples
- European Corn Borers in Pepper
- Tissue Testing Time for Fruit Crops
- Plectosporium and Other Curcubit Problems
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2006 Newsletters
- Brief Bits: Subscriptions, Seed Ordering, Section 18 Update & Trade Associations
- New Publications
- Results of Hort Farm Research Trials
- NH Section 18 Label for Indar on Blueberry
- University of Maine Fruit and Vegetable Variety Trials
- Temperatures for Optimum Growth of Transplants
- Herbicide Update from 2006-7 NE Vegetable Guide
- Perimeter Trap Crops for Vegetables
- Critical Spring Temperatures for Tree Fruits
- Using Bees for Pollination of Small Fruit Crops
- The NH IPM Newsletter and Fruit Pest Hot line
- Organic Resource Guide Now Available
- Other Newsletters & Resources for Veg and Fruit Growers
- Raspberry Winter Injury
- Fungicide Updates from 2006-7 NE Vegetable Guide
- Of Pomes & Stones - Summer Pruning, August Thoughts & Those Wonderful Peaches!
- Sweet Corn IPM
- Pepper Maggot in NH
- Tissue Testing
- Cucurbit Update - Plectosporium Blight
- Fall Cover Crops
- Fall Checklist for Brambles & Blueberries
- Indar Reporting
- Tomato Grafting
- Got Weeds?
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2005 Newsletters
- Mummyberry Update: Indar
- Biocontrol of Sclerotinia Drop White Mold
- On the Horizon - Disease Update
- Row Covers to Control Spring Insects
- Managing Fire Blight
- Strawberry Diseases
- Seed Corn Maggot
- Blueberry Disease Update - Mummyberry, Phomopsis and Fusicoccum Cankers
- Cucurbit Disease Update - Plectosporium Blight, Powdery Mildew Scouting
- Strawberry - Predicting Maturity
- Foliar Tissue Testing vs. Soil Testing
- Asian Soybean Rust - What to Look For
- Tissue Testing - Why, When & How
- Vegetable Insect Pest Update
- Blueberry Crop Update
- Summer Vegetable Diseases
- Preharvest Drop Control in Apples using ReTain
- Strawberry Plasticulture with Fall Plugs
- UNH Veggie Varieties - Brent Loy's Latest
- Vole Control
- Harvesting and Storing Fall Crops
- New References Available
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