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2007 Vegetable Gazette Editions

January 2007: [link to pdf]
In This Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
  3. The Passing of Alan MacNab
  4. Strawberry Plasticulture Nutrition Research Update
  5. Local Sources of Organic Fertilizers and Soil Amendments
  6. Growing Peas and Growing Peppers
  7. 2007 Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention
  8. 2007 Mid-Atlantic Pumpkin School
  9. Upcoming Meetings


February 2007: [link to pdf]
In This Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. High Tunnel Small Fruit Research Update
  3. Growing Tomatoes & Eggplants and Growing Sweet Corn, Baby Corn (Pickling Corn) & Popcorn
  4. A Look Back at Processing Tomato Production
  5. Potato Cull Piles – Just Anther Reminder
  6. Upcoming Meetings


March 2007: [link to pdf]
In This Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
  3. Retirement Luncheon for Pete Ferretti
  4. Colony Collapse Disorder
  5. Recent Onion Herbicide Options for Weed Control
  6. Words of Wisdom
  7. Upcoming Meetings


April 2007:[link to pdf]
In This Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. Plan for Successful Pest Management
  3. Bacterial Canker on Tomato
  4. That’s a Berry Good Question!!!
  5. High Tunnel Lettuce Cultivars
  6. Frost Protection: Tips and Techniques
  7. Updated Small Fruit Pesticide Tables
  8. Sprayer Application Technology Training for Agricultural Professionals
  9. Newspaper and Straw Mulches for Suppressing Weeds in an Organic Cucumber Crop Grown in High Tunnels
  10. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
  11. Upcoming Meetings


May 2007: [link to pdf]
In This Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. Reading the Pesticide Label is More Important than Ever Before
  3. Protecting Honey Bees from Chemical Pesticides
  4. How Organic Mulches Suppress Weeds
  5. Nutrition Management for Greenhouse and High Tunnel Tomato Production
  6. Management of Wireworms in Potatoes
  7. Understanding and Controlling Damping Off
  8. Using Cover Crops to Reduce Erosion in Plasticulture Vegetable Production
  9. Vegetable Disease Update
  10. Summary of Small Fruit Pesticide Changes for 2007
  11. That’s a Berry Good Question!!!
  12. 2007 Wye Strawberry Twilight Meeting
  13. NASGA Summer Tour: Ontario and New York
  14. Upcoming Meetings


June 2007: [link to pdf]
In This Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
  3. Sweet Corn Production and Harvesting
  4. Cover Crops for Early Summer
  5. Upcoming Meetings


July 2007: [link to pdf]
In This Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
  3. Need Pesticide Credits? Check the New PaPlants Web Site
  4. Visiting Professor from the University of Hawaii Conducting Research at PSU’s High Tunnel Facility
  5. Small Fruit in High Tunnels at PSU – What Have We Learned?
  6. Penn State Advice for Protecting Bees
  7. NASGA 10th Annual Summer Tour
  8. Weeds, Insects and Pumpkin Viruses
  9. Need for Change in 2007 to the Powdery Mildew Management Program for Cantaloupe and Other Cucurbits
  10. Steps to Effective Control of Powdery Mildew in Cucurbits
  11. High Tunnel Tour – Ag Progress Days, Rock Springs, PA
  12. Red, White and Blue Potatoes for the 4th of July
  13. Penn State Grower Field Day at Biglerville
  14. Vegetable Alert – Cucurbit Downy Mildew!
  15. More Herbicides Registered for Sweet Corn
  16. Weed Management in Berry Fields with Cultural Practices
  17. Upcoming Meetings


August 2007: [link to pdf]
In this Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
  3. Spray Adjuvants for Insecticides and Fungicides
  4. Phytophthora Blight of Cucurbits
  5. Managing Phytophthora Blight in Cucurbits
  6. ‘Villetta Rose’ (W2275-3R), A Red Skin Potato Line for Fresh Market and Canning
  7. Growing Taro in a Pennsylvania High Tunnel
  8. Growing Edible Ginger in a Pennsylvania High Tunnel
  9. On-Farm Food Safety – Third Party Food Safety Audits Coming to Pennsylvania Farms
  10. Fungicide Sensitivity Assay Provides Information to Guide Cucurbit Powdery Mildew Management in Pennsylvania in 2007
  11. New Tools Available for Monitoring Corn Earworm Flights: Watch for an Increase in Trap Catch Late July – Early August
  12. High Tunnel Tour in Benton Harbor, MI
  13. Plant & Pest Advisory: Vegetable Alert!
  14. New Video: Vegetable Farmers and their Sustainable Tillage Practices
  15. Upcoming Meetings


September 2007:[link to pdf]
In This Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. Little Wasps Take on a Big Worm
  3. *Vegetable Alert!** Late Blight on Tomato
  4. *Vegetable Alert!** Cucurbit Downy Mildew Confirmed in Delaware
  5. Why Such High Corn Earworm Captures this Year?
  6. Advice for Protecting Bees
  7. Japanese Beetle Management for Organic Fruit Farms
  8. Blossom End Rot-How is it Caused and How to Reduce Incidence
  9. New Insecticides for Berries
  10. Upcoming Meetings


October 2007: [link to pdf]
In This Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. Problem Solving
  3. The Hardest Job!
  4. New Fungicides for Berries
  5. Bee Researchers Close in on Colony Collapse Disorder
  6. Resources for Sustainable and Organic Production
  7. New Voices Contest Seeks Innovative Vision for Sustainable Agriculture
  8. Growing Lettuce in High Tunnels
  9. Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Incentives Program Sign Up Now Underway
  10. Ecological Farming Conference
  11. Upcoming Meetings


November 2007: [link to pdf]
In This Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. Pricing Power
  3. Growing Hydroponic Cucumbers in a Plastic Trash Can
  4. Using Plastic Mulch, Drip Irrigation and Fumigation for the Production of ‘Eva’ Potatoes
  5. Regent 4 SC Receives Supplemental Label for Control of Wireworms in Potatoes
  6. Sierra Magazine Ranks Penn State in Top 10 Eco-Friendly Schools
  7. Pennsylvania NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for Specialty Crops in 2008
  8. Know Your Enemy: Bindweed
  9. New Article to Help Organic Farmers Understand Laws Prohibiting Use of Genetically Modified Organisms
  10. American Society for Plasticulture Meeting-Plasticulture ‘08
  11. Upcoming Meetings


December 2007:[link to pdf]
In This Issue:

  1. Schedule for Articles
  2. Know Your Customers
  3. Chateau, a New Herbicide for Strawberries
  4. Census Gives Farmers a Voice in Their Future
  5. New Cucurbit IPM Modules Available for 2007/2008 Extension Meetings
  6. Know Your Enemy: The Ragweeds
  7. Yields of Edible Ginger in a Pennsylvania High Tunnel
  8. Tips for Using Compost
  9. Buy This 40-Page Booklet for Your Cucurbit and Berry Pollinators
  10. Upcoming Meetings