What a wet July we have had so far.. and summer for that matter! The timing and amount of rain has made it difficult to complete cover sprays in a timely manner. Even with all of this rain and limited spray windows, all of our fruit crops have remained disease free. Our peaches and blackberries…Read more about Crop conditions[Read More]
Stone Fruits
Here at the Meigs Horticulture Facility in Lafayette, Indiana we couldn’t ask for better crop conditions. We have been receiving good amounts of rain as needed for fruit maturation, without experiencing any flooding. The Japanese beetles seem to be our biggest issue right now across the board. Still no disease pressure to report, we will…Read more about Crop Conditions[Read More]
All of our crops at the Meigs Horticulture Farm in Lafayette, Indiana are maturing very nicely. The warm nights have helped fruit size up in the last two weeks. We have seen high thrip populations on all fruit trees, although they don’t seem to be doing much damage. This week the Japanese beetles decided to…Read more about Crop conditions[Read More]
Hi fruit growers! Hopefully the season is going well for all of you. I am hearing from several folks that fruit development is ahead of where it was this time last year, and maybe that’s why I’m also getting a lot of questions about ‘unusual’ damage to the leaves and fruits of caneberries, apples, and…Read more about Leafhopper and plant bug damage in orchards this season[Read More]
Everything here at the Meigs Horticulture Farm in Lafayette, Indiana seems to be off to a great start of fruit development. We have had an abundance of Strawberries the last two weeks and will for the next few weeks. We were able to find a handful of peaches on our trees.. no more than a…Read more about Crop conditions at Purdue Meigs Horticulture Farm[Read More]
All of our fruit trees at the Meigs Horticulture Facility have a lot of fruit despite the late frosts we had this spring. We have been busy applying our cover sprays and even had to thin our Apples. We will also have a lot of Strawberries this year, they are starting to turn red this…Read more about Crop Conditions[Read More]
San Jose scale attacks all the delicious fruit trees: apple, peach, pear, and plum. Some of you may already know that this insect is particularly difficult to manage, because most life stages are very small, even tiny, so they are not obvious until there are lots of them! In fact, you’re going to need a…Read more about Tips for managing San Jose scale in tree fruit[Read More]
There has been a lot of movement just in the last two weeks. We are seeing a lot of trees about to flower or in full flower. The grapes are swelling and some early varieties are at bud burst. Our field Strawberries are at tight bud or popcorn stage now. The Strawberries in the high…Read more about Crop Conditions[Read More]