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If you wish to maintain strong populations of hoary squash bees on your farm next year and the following years, please plant at least an acre of pumpkin or squash on your farm. Continue Reading Maintaining Pumpkin and Squash Pollinators through 2020
While thrips are occasionally found in cucurbit crops, it is unusual to see significant amounts of damage. With the warm,… Continue Reading Thrips in Pumpkins and Squash
Scouting, diagnostics and identification of insects, diseases and disorders for cucumbers, pumpkin, squash and melon crops. May 15, 2018 9:30… Continue Reading Cucurbit Crop Integrated Pest Management Workshop
This is a re-post from 2016 – Late-July to early-August is the key time for powdery mildew management! With any… Continue Reading Time to Start Scouting for Powdery Mildew
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
Powdery mildew typically arrives in Southern Ontario in mid-to-late July. Plants are most susceptible to infection during the fruit sizing… Continue Reading Time to Start Scouting for Powdery Mildew
July 5th, 2016: cucurbit downy mildew was identified today in a processing cucumber field in Kent County, Ontario. Now that… Continue Reading Cucumber Downy Mildew Confirmed in Kent County, Ontario
Downy Mildew – While downy mildew is a common occurrence in cucumbers, it is less so in pumpkins and squash. … Continue Reading Pumpkins and Squash Disease Update: 15-Aug-2105