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In this week's fruit update:
Upcoming webinars
Grapes
Raspberries
Blueberries
Strawberries
Honeyberries
Upcoming webinars:
August 4 @ 1:00pm: What to Do Now in the Vineyard: Preparing for Harvest Season. Register here.
August 5 @ 1:...
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In this week's fruit update:
Apples: Irrigation & return bloom, insect pests and diseases to watch for
Raspberries: Between harvest periods, spider mite leaf symptoms
Spotted wing drosophila - when to spray and when not to spray...
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Photo: 50 apple growers and cider makers attended the Cider Apple Production Farm Tour on July 9, co-hosted by UMN Extension and Milk & Honey Ciders.
Extension Educator Annie Klodd, author of the weekly fruit updates, is away...
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Photo: Minnesota SweeTango growers attend a (rainy!) field day at Ferguson's apple orchard on Saturday, June 26. Photo: Annie Klodd
In this week's update: Japanese beetle and SWD, strawberries, raspberries, apples, grapes. Plus info...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu
In this week's fruit update:
Strawberry season and preparing for renovation
Grapes: Give the sprayer a break
Apples: Insect pest trapping update
Raspberries and blueberries
Strawberries
Strawberry season is running full-throttle...
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Photo: Strong fruit set on Nova floricane-bearing raspberries in Chanhassen, MN. Photo: Annie Klodd
In this week's fruit update: Strawberry harvest season, apple pest forecast, grape post-bloom tasks, raspberries and blueberries.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu
This week's fruit update includes: Apples, grapes, raspberries, and strawberries. Key issues addressed include drought and heat, Japanese beetles, and foliar testing.
1) Crop Reports:
Apples
Apples have sized up nicely with the warm...
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Japanese beetles (JB) will begin emerging from the soil in Minnesota around the 3rd or 4th week of June. At this time, fruit growers should prepare their management strategies for JB and make any necessary purchases to control them. This...
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This week's fruit crop update includes:
Blueberries - leaf reddening, freeze impacts
Strawberries - freeze mitigation and impacts, fungicide application
Apples - Late thinning options
Grapes - Tasks to do during and after bloom
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu
This week's fruit update includes:
Apples - chemical thinning, codling moth, plum curculio
Grapes - shoot thinning, training one-year old vines, fungicides
Strawberries
Raspberries
Stone fruit
Apples
Fruit set is generally very strong...