Information for commercial vegetable production in Ontario
In 2018 and 2019, before the phase-out of chlorpyrifos, two growers opted to release sterile flies as their onion maggot… Continue Reading How sterile flies replaced Lorsban for two onion growers
Over the past 5 years, sterile onion maggot flies have been released at several onion fields in Ontario to see… Continue Reading Onion maggot management without chlorpyrifos
Katie Goldenhar – Horticulture Pathologist Anthracnose of garlic has been reported to infect only garlic scapes and bulbils. This disease… Continue Reading New Disease Report: Anthracnose of garlic scapes
Minor Use Label Expansion for the Use of Velum Prime (Fluopyram), for the Control of Stem and Bulb (Ditylenchus dipsaci) on Garlic Continue Reading A New Strategy for Managing Garlic Stem and Bulb Nematode
Garlic was harvested back in July and over the past five months bulbs have either been cracked for planting, sold… Continue Reading Stored garlic might have mites
Stemphylium leaf blight (caused by a fungus, Stemphylium vesicarium) of onion was first identified in Ontario in 2008 and has… Continue Reading Using fungicides for Stemphylium leaf blight in onions
The Garlic Growers Association of Ontario has just announced that it is taking orders from members for clean planting material… Continue Reading Garlic Growers Association Launch New Clean Seed Program
Vegetatively grown crops such as garlic, potatoes or strawberries are amplified not by seed, but asexually by clones, daughter tubers… Continue Reading What is clean seed production?
Originally published in ONvegetables in The Grower, April 2017 Even with the use of herbicides, broadleaf weed control in pumpkins… Continue Reading Tips for Broadleaf Weed Control in Pumpkins and Winter Squash