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June 13, 2018 Southwest Purdue Ag Center High Tunnel Tour Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center 4369 North Purdue Road, Vincennes, IN 47591 Contact Wenjing Guan guan40@purdue.edu June 26, 2018 Summer Field Tour- Fruits & Vegetables Garwood Orchard, LaPorte, IN Contact Lori Jolly-Brown ljollybr@ purdue.edu July 17-18 Indiana Winery and Vineyard Association Summer Meeting Brown County Inn, Nashville, IN[Read More…]
Seal the Seasons is a growing food company founded on supporting local growers by making local food available all year-round. Seal the Seasons partners with local family farms on a state-by-state basis to source local food (focused primarily on fruit and vegetables), freeze it, and sell to grocers, with the grower proudly featured on the[Read More…]
What??? Yes, thanks to the Return Bloom Fund and the Meigs Farm Team, we have a small planting of three varieties of plum: Early Shiro, Green Gage, and Ruby Queen. Did you know in Australia, some varieties are retailing at $15.90AU per kilogram (or $7.22 per pound)? Most Midwesterners only know those hard, tasteless things[Read More…]
Following the success of last year’s Summer Field Tour at Tuttle Orchards, this year we are again planning a combined summer field tour with the Indiana Horticultural Society, the Indiana Vegetable Growers’ Association and the Indiana Farm Market Association. We will be hosted by Garwood Orchards in La Porte, IN. While we encourage membership in[Read More…]
June 6-7, 2018 Indy International Wine Competition Hosted by the Purdue Wine Grape Team Purdue Memorial Union Ballroom http://www.indyinternational.org/. June 26, 2018 Summer Field Tour- Fruits & Vegetables Garwood Orchard, LaPorte, IN Contact Lori Jolly-Brown ljollybr@ purdue.edu October 17, 2018 Indiana Flower Growers Conference Daniel Turf Center Contact Lori Jolly-Brown ljollybr@ purdue.edu January 8, 2019 Illiana[Read More…]
For chemical thinning of apples, the best time for post-bloom thinning is around 10-12 mm fruit diameter. With warm temperatures fruit can grow up to 1mm per day, so in northern areas we are right in the middle of chemical thinning time. Often at thinning time we talk about temperatures needing to be warm enough[Read More…]
This is the last installment of our series on spring temperatures for 2018. What a strange year it has been. We started out very cool until mid-April and it didn’t really warm up until early May (Fig. 1). I think every day since then has been over 80F. Although the early spring was much cooler[Read More…]
Eastern flower thrips, an occasional pest of strawberries, have been reported in large numbers in central Indiana. They are attracted to and feed on flowers, with the result being leathery fruit or fruit that fail to ripen. This problem occurs every year at some level but has not been serious since 1994. Eastern flower thrips[Read More…]
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