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Blossom End Rot of Tomato Fruit
Blossom end rot is a physiological disorder that occurs wherever tomatoes (and peppers) are grown. The symptoms, factors affecting blossom end rot and control methods are covered in this publication. ...
Bacterial canker is an infectious disease of fresh-market and processing tomatoes that usually results in reduced yields and premature fruit drop. The symptoms, disease cycle, and control methods of bacterial canker are ...
Identification and Control of Crucifer Diseases
This bulletin addresses the major disease problems of crucifers in the Midwest and is intended to be used as an aid in their identification and management. The bulletin includes information about black rot, black leg, do...
Diagnosis and Control of Onion Diseases
This publication provides information about various onion diseases such as purple blotch, downy mildew, neck rot, onion smut and more. It includes information about the diseases' symptoms, life cycle and control methods....
Melcast: Melon Disease Forecaster
This publication is targeted towards individuals who operate or consult with large scale commercial muskmelon or watermelon farms in areas where Alternaria leaf blight, anthracnose, and gummy stem blight are common manag...
Common scab occurs in most areas where potatoes are grown. It is a major production problem that affects tuber grade quality and has only a small effect on total yield. This publication provides information about symptom...
Muskmelons, watermelons, cucumber, squash, gourds, and pumpkins are cucurbits commonly grown in Indiana. These crops are attacked by a variety of insects and related pests, including aphids, cucumber beetles, seedcorn ma...
Vegetable Insect Identification
Shows pictures of different insects that attack vegetables. Tells what plants they attack and what damage they do. Includes comments on some controls. ...
Gives description, life cycle, plants affected, and chemical control measures against the flea beetle. ...
Muskmelon Problems on Acid Sandy Soils: Manganese Toxicity and Magnesium Deficiency
This leaflet discusses diagnosis, identification, and correction of acid soil problems. Pictures are included of problem plants. ...
Identifying Air Pollution Damage on Melons
This leaflet discusses the diagnosis, identification, and solutions of air pollution damage on melons. Tables are included listing the relative injury and symptoms which may be confused with air pollution injury. Pictu...
This publication discusses the source of toxicity, implications for horticulture, juglone sensitivity in plants, plants observed to be sensitive and tolerant to juglone. An illustration of a typical leaf and nut chara...
Starting in the Nursery Business
This publication discusses starting in the nursery business, including what you'll need, developing a nursery business plan, selecting a specific nursery site, nursery design and space requirements, and labor and capit...
Guide to Information for Starting in the Nursery Business
This is a reference list of informative publications which can provide answers to many of the questions which arise when considering a new nursery business. ...
List of Assistance and Regulatory Agencies for Starting in the Nursery Business
This publication is a listing of Federal and Indiana state government agencies that regulate various activities involved in operating a landscape plant nursery. ...
Guide to Production Information for the Commercial Nursery Crop Grower
This publication is a reference list of informative publications which can provide answers and guidance to the commercial nursery grower on topics from propagation to pest management. ...
Pest Control in Indiana Cantaloupe Production
Questions often arise about the use of pesticides in any cropping system. This publication provides information on how cantaloupes are grown in Indiana including how producers control diseases, insect and weed pests....
Pest Control in Tomatoes for Processing
This publication provides scouting information and treatment options for disease and insect pests of tomatoes for commercial producers....
Southwest Purdue Agriculture Program Melon Variety Trial Results for 2005
This publication presents four melon trials—personal size seedless watermelons, seeded watermelons, seedless watermelons, and eastern muskmelons—that were conducted in 2005 at the Southwest Purdue Agriculture...
Southwest Purdue Agriculture Program Melon Variety Trial Results for 2006
This publication presents data from seedless watermelon and eastern muskmelon trials conducted in 2006 at the Southwest Purdue Agriculture Center north of Vincennes, Indiana. Evaluating newly released varieties and advan...
Managing Striped Cucumber Beetle Populations on Cantaloupe and Watermelon
Topics discussed in this publication are: description and life cycle of the striped cucumber beetle, transmission of bacterial wilt, monitoring beetle populations, and control insecticides....
Vegetable Diseases: Late Blight of Tomato and Potato
Late blight of tomato and potato has an infamous history: it is the documented cause of the Irish potato famines of the mid-1800s. In 2009, the diseases moved from the pages of history books to tomato plants in your back...
Gives pictures and general information about vegetable insects. ...
Fruit Diseases: Disease Management for Fruit Trees After Crop Loss
In the event of crop losses from extreme spring weather, growers still need to manage their trees for diseases. If trees are not managed, populations of disease inoculum can build up and threaten the crop the following s...
Managing Insect Pests of Commercially Grown Crucifers
Talks about insects that attack cole crops, the damage they do, and control measures. ...
Vegetable Diseases: Mature Watermelon Vine Decline and Similar Vine Decline Diseases of Cucurbits
Mature watermelon vine decline (originally known as sudden wilt) can be a limiting factor in many watermelon fields. This publication describes the characteristics of mature watermelon vine decline (MWVD), the features t...
Vegetable Diseases: Gummy Stem Blight of Muskmelon and Watermelon
Gummy stem blight (also called black rot) is one of the most serious foliar diseases of muskmelon and watermelon in Indiana. This publication describes the cycle and symptoms of gummy stem blight and offers management r...
Vegetable Diseases: Anthracnose of Cucumber, Muskmelon, and Watermelon
Anthracnose of cucumber, muskmelon, and watermelon can result in yield loss or lower quality fruit. Direct infection of the fruit also can result in loss of marketability. This publication describes the disease cycle and...
Opportunities in the Fresh-Cut Fruit Sector for Indiana Melon Growers
8-page publication provides an overview of the fresh-cut produce industry and of the melon industry in Indiana and discusses available opportunities for Indiana melon growers in the fresh-cut fruit indistry....
This publication discusses the genetics and breeding, environmental conditions, mineral nutrition, weeds, insects, diseases, nematodes, and harvesting and handling of sweet corn. Tables are included listing the relati...
Vegetable Diseases: Fungicide Resistance Management for Indiana Vegetables
Proper fungicide use is essential for controlling potentially devastating diseases in almost all commercial crops. This publication provides with basic information about fungicide resistance and what to do to minimize fu...
Pepper Disease Management Timeline for Indiana
This handy publication presents a timeline for managing common diseases of pepper in Indiana.
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...Cantaloupe and Watermelon Disease Management Timeline for Indiana
This handy publication presents a timeline for managing common diseases of cantaloupe and watermelon in Indiana.
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Pages: 2
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Pumpkin Disease Management Timeline for Indiana
This handy publication presents a timeline for managing common diseases of pumpkin in Indiana.
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Pages: 2
Language: English
...Tomato Disease Management Timeline for Indiana
This handy publication (presents a timeline for managing common diseases of tomato in indiana.
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Language: English
...Food Safety for Fruit and Vegetable Farms: Good Agricultural Practices for Fruit and Vegetable Farms
Food safety is important on every farm, and growers have a responsibility to minimize food safety risks to produce food that is not only wholesome and nutritious, but also safe. This joint publication of Purdue Extension...
Food Safety for Fruit and Vegetable Farms: Good Agricultural Practices for Fruit and Vegetable Farms
Food safety is important on every farm, and growers have a responsibility to minimize food safety risks to produce food that is not only wholesome and nutritious, but also safe. This joint publication of Purdue Extension...
Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2001
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: beans, broccoli, cabbage, cucumber, garlic, muskmelon, onion, pepper, pumpkin, squash, summer squash, sweet corn, tomatillo, tomato, wa...
Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2002
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: broccoli, cabbage, carrot, cucumber, muskmelon, onion, pepper, pumpkin, summer squash, sweet corn, tomato, watermelon, and miscellaneou...
Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2003
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: broccoli, cabbage, cucumber, edamame, garlic, muskmelon, onion, pepper, pumpkin, summer squash, sweet corn, tomato, watermelon, and mis...
Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2004
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: broccoli, cucumber, eggplant muskmelon, onion, pepper, pumpkin, squash, sweet corn, tomato, watermelon, and miscellaneous.
Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2005
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: broccoli, eggplant, muskmelon, onion, pepper, pumpkin, squash, sweet corn, tomato, watermelon, and miscellaneous.
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Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2006
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: muskmelon, okra, onion, pepper, pumpkin, squash, sweet corn, tomato, watermelon, and miscellaneous.
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Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2007
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: mixed crops, muskmelon, onion, pepper, pumpkin, squash, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon.
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Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2008
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: chard, eggplant, lettuce, mixed crops, muskmelon, onion, pepper, pumpkin, sweet corn, sweet potato, tomato, and watermelon.
Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2009
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: beans, beet, cucumber, eggplant, leek, melon, muskmelon, onion, pepper, pumpkin, squash, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon.
Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2010
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: melon, onion, pepper, pumpkin, squash, sweet corn, and sweet potato.
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Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2011
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: beans, cucumber, edamame, melon, pepper, pumpkin, squash, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon.
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Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2012
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: cucumber, edamame, garlic, lettuce, melon, muskmelon, pepper, potato, pumpkin, squash, sweet corn, tomato, turnip, and watermelon.
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This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: asparagus, cabbage, cantaloupe, lettuce, mixed crops, onion, pepper, pumpkin, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon.
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Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2014
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: Asian vegetables, broccoli, cantaloupe, cucumber, kohlrabi, mixed crops, pepper, potato, pumpkin, radish, sweet corn, tomato, and water...
Illustrated Definitions of Plant Problems
This publication is a picture dictionary of common plant problems. It is designed to help plant growers learn the terms that plant specialists and reference books use to describe a plant disease or injury. By knowing the...
Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2015
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: bok choy, cantaloupe, cucumber, mixed crops, pepper, pumpkin, squash, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon. ...
Vegetable Grafting: Techniques for Tomato Grafting
Many growers who are interested ingrowing grafted tomatoes may be hindered by the high cost of already grafted plants. Growers may prefer to graft their own tomato plants to reduce costs or increase cultivar selection (i...
Fruit and Vegetable Farmer Surveys: Characteristics of Indiana Vegetable Farming Operations
Purdue researchers surveyed Indiana fruit and vegetable producers in 2012. This publication provides some of the survey findings about vegetable farming operations in Indiana, including farm size, ownership, labor pra...
Fruit and Vegetable Farmer Surveys: Characteristics of Indiana Vegetable Farmers
Purdue researchers surveyed Indiana fruit and vegetable producers in 2012. This publication provides some of the survey findings about vegetable Indiana vegetable farmers, including their demographic characteristics, ...
Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2016
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: bean, cantaloupe, cucumber, pepper, pumpkin, squash, strawberry, sweet corn, tomato, watermelon, and winter melon. This ...
On-farm Food Safety for Produce Growers: Microbial Water Quality testing
Water quality is important, because the water you use on your produce farm could potentially introduce human pathogens into your production fields, equipment and workers, washing and packing facilities, and directly o...
Food Safety for Fruit and Vegetable Farms: BARDOT - A New, Fast Method for Identifying Microbes
In food safety and other areas, it is important to quickly identify microbes that are present. Purdue researchers developed a technique that can identify many types of microorganisms three times faster than normal lab...
The Economic Contribution of the Indiana Green Industry
In this publication, we categorize the green industry in five distinct sectors based on the business' main revenue activity. We then estimate the economic contributions of Indiana's green industry in these five sector...
The Organic State of Indiana: Findings From the 2016 Certified Organic Survey
This publication provides an overview of the Indiana data from the USDA-NASS 2016 Certified Organic Survey. It provides number of farms, sales, and more.
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Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2017
This bulletin provides trial information for many vegetable varieties, including: bean, cantaloupe, cucumber, pepper, pumpkin, squash, strawberry, sweet corn, tomato, watermelon, and winter melon. This publication is ...
Selling at Farmers Markets: Benefits and Price Trends
This publication provides information to farmers selling at farmers markets or other local outlets. It illustrates the main characteristics of farmers markets, the benefits of selling directly to consumers, and the ma...
This publication describes the importance of measuring plant light use, and then describes a study that offers some promise of ...
This publication aims to provide information to growers about estimating the costs and benefits when they use supplemental lighting.
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This publication summarizes how much additional fertilizer a crop needs under sub-irrigation when the growing medium contains...
This publication will help you accurately perform the pour-through technique for measuring substrate electrical conductivity (EC).
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This publication explains the details of substrate electrical conductivity (EC) for greenhouse growers.
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This publication details substrate characteristic s and provides research-based information about them as a reference to guide growers.
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This publication is a resource for those who are considering high tunnel production or are relative beginners. This resource describes: selecting the right size and type of high tunnel for your operation, choosing a s...
A Comparison of Price Trends Between Farmers Markets and Grocery Stores
Tomatoes are a major specialty crop for Indiana vegetable farmers. This Purdue study looks at price data from farmers markets and grocery stores and finds that produce sold at farmers markets is not necessarily more e...
To Certify or Not: Organic Certification by Fruit, Vegetable Farmers
As organic food sales increase, the relationship between farmers and growers grows in importance. This study, by a Purdue University professor, looks at the decision-making process and the barriers and motives of org...
How to Splice Graft Cucumber Plants
Grafting cucumber with squash rootstock (Cucurbita maxima, C. Moschata and C. maxima X C. moschata) has proven to be an effective approach to improving cucumber's cold tolerance. Vegetable growers are likely to benef...
Managing Environment in High Tunnels for Cool Season Vegetable Production
In a high tunnel or hoophouse, vegetable growers can influence three crucial factors: light, temperature and relative humidity. In this publication, Purdue Extension experts discuss practical suggestions for managing...
Managing Phytophthora Blight of Cucurbits
Phytophthora blight is perhaps the most serious disease of cucurbits in Indiana. This updated (2020) bulletin describes the disease cycle, symptoms and management of Phytophthora blight of cucurbits, which has charac...
Midwest Vegetable Trial Report for 2018
This bulletin provides trial reports for many vegetable varieties including cantaloupe, pickling cucumber, pepper, pumpkin, summer squash and zucchini, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon. Lists of vegetable seed sour...
Specialty Crop Prices of the 2018 Market Season
This publication provides the 2018 prices of the most frequently sold fruits, non-leafy vegetables, leafy greens, and other specialty crops offered at 12 farmers markets in Indiana. Indiana farmers markets differ grea...
Seasonal Daily Light Integrals Across Indiana
The amount of light available in a day for photosynthesis is called the daily light integral. Solar DLI varies, and this publication shows how understanding the variation can assist Indiana growers using high tunnels ...
Indiana and the 2017 Census of Agriculture
The 2017 Census of Agriculture, data courtesy of the USDA, shows that Indiana seems to be adapting to the changing economic climate: Bigger large farms, more smaller operations, and a positive outlook for the Indiana...
Heating requirements for winter hydroponic lettuce production
To produce hydroponically grow crops, such as lettuce, in greenhouses during Indiana winters, heating is required. However, the cost can be high. This publication helps greenhouse growers calculate whether the cost of...
Optimal fertilizer solution concentration for Hydroponic lettuce production
Growth rates differ for lettuce varieties grown in the Midwest. By comparing several varieties and types under different fertilizer concentrations using NFT and CFT production systems, we provide growers with fertilizer ...
Performance of lettuce varieties in greenhouse hydroponic production
Consumer demand for locally grown and fresh, leafy greens is rising. Not much is known about how individual varieties perform in hydroponic culture. 24 varieties from Romaine, Leaf, Oakleaf, and Head types were grown in ...
Greenhouse hydroponics allow for year-round production of lettuce and other leafy greens, but heating can be expensive. Cold tolerance was tested for 24 varieties and found that air temperatures of 60 degrees Fahrenheit ...
Vegetable Prices for the 2019 Market Season
Farmers markets are an increasingly important component of US local food systems. This publication provides weekly prices of the 20 most sold vegetables at Indiana farmers markets during the 2019 market season. Data come...
High Tunnel Cucumber Production Guide
High tunnels, also called hoop houses, are a form of protected agriculture. The plastic-covered structure blocks rain, snow and strong wind that crops are exposed to when growing in the open field. Seedless cucumber is o...
2019 Indiana Farmers Market Prices: Fruit
Fruit production in Indiana is growing, and more fruit is being sold at farmers markets. In this publication, the second of three related articles (HO-319-W and HO-321-W), three Purdue University researchers discuss how ...
2019 Indiana Farmers Market Prices: Specialty Produce
Demand for locally produced foods has grown significantly. Farmers markets are an important sales outlet for specialty crops farmers. In the third of three related publications (HO-319-W and HO-320-W), two Purdue Univers...
Scheduling Fall and Winter Vegetable Production in High Tunnels
This publication provides abundant, detailed guidance on scheduling vegetable crops for winter high tunnel production. It includes a fillable scheduling form, a planting date scheduling guide, two scenarios with revenue ...
Effects of Cold Weather on Horticultural Plants in Indiana
Cold weather can injure fruit and vegetable crops, and ornamental plants, in fall, winter, and spring. This updated publication identifies types of injury, factors that influence the degree of injury, and steps that can ...
Midwest Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers 2024
Eight Midwestern states cooperate in the production of this annually updated guide. It includes production information such as vegetable varieties, soils and fertility as well as recommendations for weed, insect and dise...
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