VEGETABLES:
- Cole crops: Cabbage, Cauliflower and Broccoli: Most cole crops look good. Treatments for flea beetle have been effective. Scouts noted some low levels of slug and flea beetle feeding damage.
- Onions and Garlic: Thrips are generally present but at low levels, well below threshold.
- Peas: Doing well at this time with no problems noted.
- High tunnel tomatoes: Botrytis, early blight, pith necrosis and timber rot/white mold diseases were noted by scouts along with tobacco spotted wilt virus (vectored by thrips) noted on some cherry tomatoes.
- Field tomatoes: Most tomatoes looking good at this point. Some early blight was found.
- Sweet corn: In various fields and across planting dates ranged in size from one inch to 22 inches in height. Some light slug damage and light cutworm damage observed by scouts in several plantings. Corn borer damage was noted in one field at low levels and some armyworm damage also noted.
- Cucumbers: Most plantings look very good. Some cucumber beetles noted in some fields and high tunnel plantings. Scouts also noting the presence of lady beetles.
- Zucchini and Summer Squash: Cucumber beetles at threshold in some fields. Scouts noted a few instances of angular leaf spot and blossom end rot on some fruit.
- Winter Squash and Pumpkins: No problems noted.
- Melons: Ground hog damage (eating plants) was found in a couple of fields.
- Potatoes: Both flea beetles and Colorado potato beetles (CPB) were noted at threshold levels with recommendations that growers begin rescue treatments. Scouts noted eggs, larvae and adults of CPB.
- Peppers: Most peppers looking good. Scouts did note some light feeding by flea beetles on some plants.
- Eggplant: Scouts noted low levels of CPB, and flea beetles at treatment threshold levels in some fields.
- Green/Snap Beans: Most plantings looked good. A few had bean leaf beetle feeding damage at threshold level.