Fruit & Vegetable Crops

Cucurbit Downy Mildew Alert - UPDATE
Our colleagues at the UMASS vegetable team just sent this alert at 1pm Friday, 7/24/2020: Cucurbit downy mildew was confirmed on cucumbers i... Learn More
Commercial Fruit Growers: Leaf Tissue Testing Time!
Measuring the foliar nutrient levels allows fruit growers to evaluate results from past fertilization and gives the most reliable data on which to bas... Learn More
Herbicide disappointments in dry weather
Commercial vegetable growers may be encountering some strange problems when using soil-applied herbicides in dry conditions.
Commercial vegetable growers may be encountering some strange problems when using soil-applied herbicides in dry conditions. Learn More
Are you growing grapes in NH? We want to hear from you.
UNH Extension is working with the NH Winery Association to try to get an accurate assessment of how many grapes, and of what varieties, are ... Learn More
Fire blight outbreaks occuring in NH
  Fire blight outbreaks have been reported from several orchards around NH. The outbreaks likely occurred on unprotected blossoms during the... Learn More
NH Vegetable Pest & Disease Update
Trapping data – Traps are out on farms throughout the state, and we’re monitoring for squash vine borer and the major sweet corn insect pests (Europea... Learn More
What's making my squash (or pumpkin) leaves bright yellow???
One likely answer is the ‘B’ gene. This gene, also called “precocious yellow”, causes the stem of the squash to be yellow rather than green. Oved Shif... Learn More
NH Agriculture Open Forum - Summer Series
UNH Extension will continue to host a NH Agriculture Open Forum (using Zoom) for farmers and service providers to discuss how they are adapting in the... Learn More
Spotlight on research: can hand-picking Japanese beetle really help??
Today’s episode of Spotlight on Research focuses on a paper published in the journal Horticultural Entomology in 2014. A pair of researchers from East... Learn More
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Over-informed on IPM - Episode 020: Mummyberry and Pollinator Protection
Anna seeks the help of her neighborhood plant pathology experts, directors of the plant diagnostic clinics at UVM & UNH Ann Hazelrigg of UVM & Cheryl Smith of UNH, to break down IPM of mummyberry, a fungal disease affecting blueberry. Things get complicat
Anna seeks the help of her neighborhood plant pathology experts, directors of the plant diagnostic clinics at UVM & UNH Ann Hazelrigg of UVM & Cheryl ... Learn More