Vegetables

A list of meetings for Urban Agriculture growers.

A list of meetings for fruit and vegetable growers.

This webpage is the production archives of the Women In Agriculture webinars.

Vegetable and Fruit News, Volume 13, Issue 6 (September 2022). Topics in this issue are: Spots on Honeycrisp Apples, Early Insect Scouting, Bacterial Canker of Tomato, Stinkbug Damage on Tomato, Precautions for Grower during a Boil Water Advisory, Fungicide Resistance in Botrytis, Sweet Potato Harvest Curing & Storage, and upcoming events and grants.

Early this month, the Baltimore City Department of Public Works issued a Required Boil Water Advisory for parts of Baltimore City and a Precautionary Boil Water Advisory for a larger portion of the city and part of Baltimore County due to E. coli being identified in municipal water in parts of the city. While the Department of Public Works (DPW) has received the all-clear from the Maryland Department of Environment to lift the boil water advisory, below are some tips for farmers in the event a similar event happens in the future.

IpM Scouting Tips posted in the Fruit and Vegetable News.

Take a look at the research happening here at the Central Maryland Research and Education Center in Upper Marlboro (CMREC-UM). Even though we are one of the smallest Research and Education Centers (RECs) in the State, our scope of research is quite vast.  Here at CMREC-UM you will find research on agronomy, cover crops, forestry, horticulture, irrigation, livestock, water quality and more.

Roots in Research - Yield of 2019 - Upper Marlboro CMREC

Cornell Cooperative Extension has a very helpful, brief factsheet on how to design a vegetable washing and packing space to minimize food-borne illness risks.

For those growing outdoors, the University of Maryland Extension's Home Garden Information Center has a wonderful color-coded calendar of dates to start seedlings and to seed outdoors in Maryland.