In this issue:

Growing Season Winding Down

Timely Reminder: Postharvest Handling

New Immigrant Farming Project

Growing Season Winding Down

Bill Hutchison, Co-Editor, University of Minnesota

The very cool air for the past week is slowing down development of late-planted, or late-maturing vegetable crops throughout the state. The excessive rainfall in Northwestern Minnesota is creating some new disease problems, particularly on pumpkins and other vine crops. For example, powdery mildew is quite abundant on vine crops, including those in our research plots at the Rosemount Experiment Station (Dakota Co.). Also, black rot is becoming more of a problem on cabbage and cole crops at Rosemount. If the insect and disease pressure can be controlled, cabbage and cole crops do quite well in this weather and can typically be harvested through much of October.

Co-Editors: Bill Hutchison, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, hutch002@tc.umn.edu
Jeanne Ciborowski, IPM Program, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, :jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us
Production Editor: Rebecca Hines, Research Associate, University of Minnesota

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Last Revised November 11, 1999.
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