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Hot Pepper Cultivar Evaluation Using Extension Master Gardeners, G.A. Pabodha Galgamuwa, Charles J. Barden, Ward Upham Jan 2016

Hot Pepper Cultivar Evaluation Using Extension Master Gardeners, G.A. Pabodha Galgamuwa, Charles J. Barden, Ward Upham

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Evaluation Of Softneck And Hardneck Garlic Produced Within Or Without High Tunnels, Lewis Jett, Larry Campbell, John Murray Jan 2016

Evaluation Of Softneck And Hardneck Garlic Produced Within Or Without High Tunnels, Lewis Jett, Larry Campbell, John Murray

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Midwest Cantaloupe Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2015, Wenjing Guan, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie Jan 2016

Midwest Cantaloupe Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2015, Wenjing Guan, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Evaluation Of Three Pollinizer Planting Patterns On Seedless Watermelon Yield, Ron Goldy Jan 2016

Evaluation Of Three Pollinizer Planting Patterns On Seedless Watermelon Yield, Ron Goldy

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Midwest Triploid Watermelon Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2015, Wenjing Guan, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie Jan 2016

Midwest Triploid Watermelon Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2015, Wenjing Guan, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Midwest Vegetable Trial Report For 2015, Elizabeth Maynard Jan 2016

Midwest Vegetable Trial Report For 2015, Elizabeth Maynard

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

This is a compilation of 19 research trial reports from six land-grant universities in the midwestern United States. Crops include bok choy, cantaloupe, cucumber, pepper, pumpkin, sweet corn, squash, tomato, and watermelon. Several crops were evaluated in high tunnels or hoophouses. Most trials evaluated different cultivars or varieties, including one investigating cantaloupe variety influence on cucumber beetle presence and incidence of bacterial wilt. Four reports addressed specific growing practices: the use of poly-coated urea to supply nitrogen to sweet corn, biochar use in a high tunnel bag culture system, use of cereal rye cover crop in butternut squash, and pollinizer …


Supersweet Sweet Corn Cultivar Evaluation For Northern Indiana, 2015, Elizabeth Maynard, Israel S. Calsoyas Jan 2016

Supersweet Sweet Corn Cultivar Evaluation For Northern Indiana, 2015, Elizabeth Maynard, Israel S. Calsoyas

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

This paper reports on thirteen bicolor, two yellow, and three white supersweet sweet corn entries that were evaluated at the Pinney-Purdue Agricultural Center in Wanatah, Indiana.


Winter Squash Variety Evaluation, John Strang, Chris Smigell, John Snyder, Pam Sigler Jan 2016

Winter Squash Variety Evaluation, John Strang, Chris Smigell, John Snyder, Pam Sigler

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Comparison Of Attractiveness And Reaction Of Melon Cultivars To The Striped Cucumber Beetle And Bacterial Wilt, 2015, Ahmad Shah Mohammadi, Ricky E. Foster, Elizabeth Maynard, Dan Egel Jan 2016

Comparison Of Attractiveness And Reaction Of Melon Cultivars To The Striped Cucumber Beetle And Bacterial Wilt, 2015, Ahmad Shah Mohammadi, Ricky E. Foster, Elizabeth Maynard, Dan Egel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Cantaloupe Variety Trial For Kentucky, 2015, Shubin K. Saha, John Snyder, Chris Smigell, John Walsh Jan 2016

Cantaloupe Variety Trial For Kentucky, 2015, Shubin K. Saha, John Snyder, Chris Smigell, John Walsh

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Poly-Coated Urea As A Seasonlong Nitrogen Source For Sweet Corn, Ron Goldy, Carly Andres, Virginia Wendzel Jan 2016

Poly-Coated Urea As A Seasonlong Nitrogen Source For Sweet Corn, Ron Goldy, Carly Andres, Virginia Wendzel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Second Year Results Using Biochar As A Soil Amendment In A High Tunnel, Polybag Growth System, Ron Goldy, Carly Andres, Virginia Wendzel Jan 2016

Second Year Results Using Biochar As A Soil Amendment In A High Tunnel, Polybag Growth System, Ron Goldy, Carly Andres, Virginia Wendzel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Mini- And Heirloom Sweet Pepper Variety Performance In High Tunnels, 2015, Elizabeth Maynard, Israel S. Calsoyas Jan 2016

Mini- And Heirloom Sweet Pepper Variety Performance In High Tunnels, 2015, Elizabeth Maynard, Israel S. Calsoyas

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

Trials on mini sweet peppers and other specialty sweet peppers in the Midwest have not recently been reported. We undertook this project to compare yield and fruit characteristics of hybrid and heirloom peppers grown in high tunnels using organic and conventional production methods.


Pumpkin Cultivar Performance Trial Grown In Southern Ohio — 2015, Brad R. Bergefurd, Wayne Lewis, Thom Harker, Dane Peck, Dannah Diedrick Jan 2016

Pumpkin Cultivar Performance Trial Grown In Southern Ohio — 2015, Brad R. Bergefurd, Wayne Lewis, Thom Harker, Dane Peck, Dannah Diedrick

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Sugar-Enhanced And Synergistic Sweet Corn Cultivar Evaluation For Northern Indiana, 2015, Elizabeth Maynard, Israel S. Calsoyas Jan 2016

Sugar-Enhanced And Synergistic Sweet Corn Cultivar Evaluation For Northern Indiana, 2015, Elizabeth Maynard, Israel S. Calsoyas

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

This paper reports on seven bicolor and two yellow sugar-enhanced or synergistic sweet corn entries that were evaluated at the Pinney-Purdue Agricultural Center in Wanatah, Indiana.


Seedless Watermelon Variety Trial For Kentucky, 2015, Shubin K. Saha, John Snyder, Chris Smigell, John Walsh Jan 2016

Seedless Watermelon Variety Trial For Kentucky, 2015, Shubin K. Saha, John Snyder, Chris Smigell, John Walsh

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


2015 Butternut Squash Cereal Rye Cover Crop Trial, Ben Phillips Jan 2016

2015 Butternut Squash Cereal Rye Cover Crop Trial, Ben Phillips

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Saginaw Valley Research And Extension Center 2014 Sh2 Sweet Corn Variety Trial, Ben Phillips Jan 2015

Saginaw Valley Research And Extension Center 2014 Sh2 Sweet Corn Variety Trial, Ben Phillips

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Spring High Tunnel Radish Evaluations, Lewis W. Jett Jan 2015

Spring High Tunnel Radish Evaluations, Lewis W. Jett

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Midwest Cantaloupe Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2014, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie, Sara Hoke Jan 2015

Midwest Cantaloupe Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2014, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie, Sara Hoke

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Evaluation Of 18 Specialty Potatoes In Southwest Michigan, Ron Goldy, Virginia Wendzel Jan 2015

Evaluation Of 18 Specialty Potatoes In Southwest Michigan, Ron Goldy, Virginia Wendzel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Kohlrabi Variety Evaluation — 2014, John Strang, Chris Smigell, John Snyder, Pam Sigler Jan 2015

Kohlrabi Variety Evaluation — 2014, John Strang, Chris Smigell, John Snyder, Pam Sigler

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Hairy Vetch As A Replacement For Synthetic Nitrogen, Ron Goldy, Virginia Wendzel Jan 2015

Hairy Vetch As A Replacement For Synthetic Nitrogen, Ron Goldy, Virginia Wendzel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

This is a compilation of 30 research trial reports from four land-grant universities in the Midwestern United States. Crops include cantaloupe, pickling cucumber, pepper, potato, pumpkin, summer squash and zucchini, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon. Somecrops were evaluated in high tunnels or hoophouses. Most trials evaluated different cultivars or varieties. One report addressed plant spacing for sweet corn and one addressed soil block for production of tomato seedlings. A list of vegetable seed sources and a list of other online sources of vegetable trial reports are also included.


Fall Broccoli Cultivar Trial 2012-2013, Shawn Wright, Darrell Slone, John Snyder Jan 2015

Fall Broccoli Cultivar Trial 2012-2013, Shawn Wright, Darrell Slone, John Snyder

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Collaborating With Extension Master Gardeners To Evaluate Tomato Cultivars, Charles J. Barden, G.A. Pabodha Galgamuwa, Ward Upham Jan 2015

Collaborating With Extension Master Gardeners To Evaluate Tomato Cultivars, Charles J. Barden, G.A. Pabodha Galgamuwa, Ward Upham

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Nitrogen Release And Disease Suppressive Activity Of Four Compost Amendments On Three Vegetable Farms, Lori Hoagland, Elizabeth Maynard, Dan Egel, Natasha Cerruti, Jeff Evard, Ben Nava, Steve Spencer Jan 2015

Nitrogen Release And Disease Suppressive Activity Of Four Compost Amendments On Three Vegetable Farms, Lori Hoagland, Elizabeth Maynard, Dan Egel, Natasha Cerruti, Jeff Evard, Ben Nava, Steve Spencer

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Midwest Triploid Watermelon Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2014, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie, Sara Hoke Jan 2015

Midwest Triploid Watermelon Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2014, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie, Sara Hoke

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Evaluating Asian Vegetables In West Virginia, Lewis Jett Jan 2015

Evaluating Asian Vegetables In West Virginia, Lewis Jett

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.


Evaluation Of Insect-Protected And Noninsect-Protected Supersweet Sweet Corn Cultivars For West Virginia — 2014, Lewis W. Jett, David Workman, Brian Sparks Jan 2015

Evaluation Of Insect-Protected And Noninsect-Protected Supersweet Sweet Corn Cultivars For West Virginia — 2014, Lewis W. Jett, David Workman, Brian Sparks

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2014 Evaluation Of Hybrid Bell Pepper Varieties For High Tunnel Production In Kansas, Kimberly L. Oxley, Cary L. Rivard Jan 2015

2014 Evaluation Of Hybrid Bell Pepper Varieties For High Tunnel Production In Kansas, Kimberly L. Oxley, Cary L. Rivard

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.