Serious Grower

For more information about fall armyworm
https://extension.psu.edu/fall-armyworm-as-a-pest-of-field-corn
 
For more information about corn rusts
https://www.vegetables.cornell.edu/pest-management/disease-factsheets/common-rust-of-sweet-corn/
 
For more information about yellow vine decline
https://plantpathology.mgcafe.uky.edu/yellow-vine-decline-cucurbits-ppfs-vg-12
 
 

Kasi is a non-commercial farmer in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. In this wide ranging discussion, we touch on microbes, nitrogen amendments for growing flowers, invasive species, comfrey tea, "chop and drop" mulching, using compost tea as a liquid fertilizer and as a pesticide... and why Anna needs to get off r/permaculture.
More information about how to interpret your soil tests from Vermont and Montana's extension services and The Compost Tea Brewing Manual. 
 
Music: With the Homies - Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Zigaboos Walk, Paper Cloth - El Flaco Collective; Happy Accident - Daniel Fridell

I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states.
Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area!
 
More information on managing cercospora leafspot in table beets, including a list of varieties with resistance to key beet diseases, a tool that helps predict infections, and two resources on a fungicide resistance program and efficacy of fungicides approved for use in organic systems that informed some of this episodes conclusions.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states.
Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area!
More on Western bean cutworm
https://cals.cornell.edu/integrated-pest-management/outreach-education/fact-sheets/western-bean-cutworm-vegetable-fact-sheet
 
More on identifying early blight on tomato
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/early-blight-of-tomato
 
Bulb mite in garlic
https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/fact-sheets/pdf/bulb_mites_garlic.pdf
 
UMaine’s Garlic Disease Testing Services
https://extension.umaine.edu/ipm/how-to-send-a-plant-sample/

Jason wants to turn his lawn into an edible landscape and an amazing place for his family in Oregon. We’ll drop in throughout the year to hear how things are progressing.
This conversation includes fitting tree fruit into small spaces, how to trap earwigs and why they are both good and bad, and why mail order pollinators could be causing more problems than its solving. 
 
Listen to the full interview with Tracy Zarrillo about her work with wild bees in CT.  

I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states.
Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area!
 
More information about purple carrot seed moth, Depressaria depressana. 
https://insectlab.russell.wisc.edu/2018/07/23/purple-carrot-seed-moth/ 

Do you want to know more about where your tomatoes come from and the experts who are supporting our vegetable farmers to grow us the freshest, tastiest tomatoes possible, using the most economically & environmentally sustainable practices?
This discussion includes discussions of how growing tomato crops under cover can solve one problem (fungal diseases) but might create new problems in need of solutions. 
More on pest management in high tunnels, distinguishing cosmetic injury caused by thrips versus abiotic conditions, and an emerging pest of tomatoes in the east, tomato pin worm. 
Special thanks to Patricia Prade at PennState Extension, Samantha Willden at Cornell AgriTech and Kathy Kamminga at Kentucky State University. 
Learn more about how federal and state funding provide expert support to our farmers to make pest management as environmentally and economically sustainable as possible by using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) tools & tactics.
Music: With the Homies - Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Summertime Madness, Just a Friend - Matt Large; Overture - Dozeoff; Libertalia - Arc DeSoleil; Beginning to Dream, Talk 2 Me - Ryan James Carr  

I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states.
Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area!
Webinar from the Vermont Vegetable & Berry Grower's Associate on what's new with Colorado potato beetle control
https://youtu.be/wcHqrf8M4Z8?si=-D_892Psawd60l-i 
 
Check out breaking news on corn earworm research!
https://www.cewipm.org/ 
 
More about precocious yellows in squash
https://extension.unh.edu/blog/2020/06/whats-making-my-squash-or-pumpkin-leaves-bright-yellow 
 
 

Kasi is a non-commercial farmer in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. We celebrate Birdhouse Day, discuss the ins and outs of cover cropping for a squash crop and for weed management, and the difference between "doing science" and "doing a science." Anna has an existential crisis over some very charismatic tomato plants. 
Tarping in the Northeast: A Guide for Small Farms 
 
Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Patina, Ryan James Carr; I Don't Wanna Be You, Park Lane; Trouble Deep, River Sam; Creepin' Up, Got Happy; Funky Market, Ritchie Everett
 

I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states.
Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area!
 
Check out breaking news on corn earworm research!
https://www.cewipm.org/ 
 
More on tomato grey leaf spot from Caleb Goossen
https://www.mofga.org/resources/pest-disease/stemphylium-gray-leaf-spot/