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.

VEGETABLES:

• Asparagus: Scouts are noting the presence of both asparagus beetles and in some patches the number is over threshold.
• Cole crops: Cabbage, Cauliflower and Broccoli:  Flea beetles have greatly increased and many cole crops had numbers over threshold, triggering a recommendation for treatment.  Some imported cabbage worm larvae were noted in cabbage and broccoli.
• 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:  Scouts reporting tomatoes at bloom and fruit set stage of development, with some ripening.   Botrytis, early blight, pith necrosis and timber rot/white mold diseases were noted by scouts.  Flea beetles at low numbers were also found in some high tunnel tomatoes.
• Field tomatoes:  Some beginning to bloom.  Light flea beetle feeding noted.
• Sweet corn: In various fields and across planting dates ranged in size from one inch to fourteen inches in height.  Some light slug damage and light cutworm damage observed by scouts in several plantings.
• Cucumbers: No pest problems noted.
• 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.
• Melons: Scouts noted a few cucumber beetles in some fields.  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 had just recently been transplanted into fields and looked good.  Scouts did note some light feeding by flea beetles on some plants.
• Green/Snap Beans: Most plantings looked good.  A few had bean leaf beetle feeding damage at threshold level.

VEGETABLES:

• Asparagus: Scouts are noting the presence of both asparagus beetles and eggs.

•  Cole crops: Cabbage, Cauliflower and Broccoli: Scouts noted the presence of light to moderate levels of flea beetles in some plantings and also detected a few eggs of the imported cabbage worm on some plants.

•  Onions and Garlic: Scouts noted the presence of thrips below threshold level on some plants.

•  Peas:  Doing well at this time with no problems noted.

•  High tunnel tomatoes:  Scouts reporting tomatoes at bud, bloom and fruit set stage of development.  The warmer temperatures since the last scouting visit helped the tomatoes to look better at all locations.

•  Sweet corn planted under row cover or early field planted: ranged in size from just spiking through the soil surface to 6 inches tall on some row covered sweet corn.  Some light slug damage observed by scouts in sweet corn under row cover.

•  Cucumbers: Scouts noted cucumbers in high tunnels at bloom and fruit set stage and other cucumbers planted under row cover approaching bloom stage of development.

 → Other crops noted as planted under row cover include green beans, melons, squash. 

•  Potatoes:  Planted, scouts noted most starting to emerge.

VEGETABLES:

Cole crops: Cabbage, Cauliflower and Broccoli:

• Growers were busy planting cole crops this past week.

 Onions and Garlic:

• Scouts noted some yellowing on some onion plants, most likely the result of cool weather and soil temperatures.

 Lettuce:

• Lettuce under row covers was doing well.

 Peas:

• planted under row cover are doing well.

 High tunnel tomatoes: 

• Scouts reporting tomatoes at bud, bloom and fruit set stage of development.  Some cold weather stress noted on some plants in some high tunnels.  Scouts observed a few tomato fruit with zippering.

 Sweet corn planted under row cover: 

• some plants 3 inches high.  Other locations sweet corn just starting to sprout.  Some light slug damage observed by scouts in sweet corn under row cover.

• Other crops noted as planted under row cover include green beans, melons, squash.  Melons were exhibiting some symptoms of cold stress.

 Potatoes: 

• Planted, scouts have not noted emergence yet.

Vegetables:

• Tomatoes: High tunnel tomatoes are at flowering and fruit set.  Some cold stress being noted.

• Sweet corn planted under row cover is emerged.  Some plants showing some symptoms of possible slug damage.