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  • Managing Fall Armyworm in Pastures and Hayfields

  • Production of Tulips as Cut Flowers

    … square feet at planting, making sure not to allow the fertilizer to come in contact with the bulbs. After bulb … emergence. When the shoots are 2 to 2.5 inches tall use a fertilizer with a 2:1 ratio of calcium nitrate to potassium … Weekly application of this ratio can be used, or a fertilizer injector can be utilized to sup- ply 200 to 250 …

  • Phytotoxicity: Chemical Damage to Garden Plants

    … or blotches on leaves or petals that turn yellow, light brown, or darker, often looking bleached, burned, or … on fruits , such as russeting (patches of rough, reddish-brown discoloration) on the skin of tree fruit s Examples of … particular are also often surrounded by a yellow, red, or brown ring or halo. Leaf distortion like curling, twisting, …

  • Spots on Honeycrisp Apples: What are They and How to Differentiate Them?

    … These spots can be identified by often hard, asymmetric brown patches near the calyx end of the fruit or the exposed side of the skin. They also produce dry brown sponge-like spots on the flesh of the apples. The …

  • Buried Debris in Lawns

    … dries out faster than the surrounding turf. The resulting brown or dead patches may follow the shape of the buried …

  • Broad mites found in raspberry fields

    … with distorted leaves that curl up and have irregular brown discoloration. A light infestation of mites can result … spots developing on leaves (fig. 2). On the leaf stalks brown, corky patches can appear. What exactly causes the leaf …

  • Powdery Mildew - Lawns

    … The infected blades gradually turn from green to tan to brown as they die. Season  Powdery mildew is more common in …

  • Causes and Prevention of Chilling Injury in Honeycrisp Apples

    … Soft Scald symptoms are characterized by a light-dark brown soft sunken discoloration patch on the apple skin (Fig. 1). This discoloration is … not in the skin. Symptoms of soggy breakdown include soft-brown spongy tissue within the apple flesh (cortex) (Fig. 2). …

  • Beech Leaf Disease

    … is relatively common among beech trees and can cause brown spots and dead tissue in leaves. Sometimes, anthracnose … to the area between veins. Another disease, erineum patch, also causes patchy leaf damage on beech trees. Unlike BLD and anthracnose, erineum patch is caused by mites that do not threaten the health of …

  • Slugs and Snails - Vegetables

    … s potted garden slug (Limax maximus).  You might also find brown garden snails ( Helix aspersa).   A ppearance Eggs: … body that tapers at both ends; colors range from black or brown or gray to yellowish or creamy; may be uniform in …