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2009 Ohio Vegetable Production Guide, Now Available!

Information To Order A Hard Copy, Click Here
You can also visit the OSU Extension eStore for this bulletin and other extension publications.

High Tunnels 101
Want to extend your growing and marketing seasons? Protect your crops from cold, wind, and rain plus certain pests and diseases? Make more money in the process? High tunnels can help you. Learn how they work, where to buy them, how to build them, their benefits, drawbacks, and more—the ABCs of what you need to know before you start—in this introductory half-day course. It’s offered, for your convenience, on six different dates at six different Ohio locations. Download the flyer for complete details.[PDF file]

Want to learn more about high tunnels? Materials from OSU Extension can help.
Audio CD (MP3 format) and or Information Packet contains 71 b/w and color pages. Click here for more information and How to order. [PDF file]

Online Edition of the 2007 Ohio Vegetable Production Guide - Click Here!

VegNet Vegetable Schools

A series of slide presentations are now available here in order to update you on the latest pumpkin and sweet corn research. All presentations are best viewed using Internet Explorer.

Pumpkins 101
First, a quick update on pumpkin variety research from 2001. Next, using cover crops for disease control in pumpkins including Fusarium fruit rot in part 2 of this presentation. A discussion on Timing of Fungicides for disease control in pumpkins. Also, a report on Microdochium on pumpkins. In the Insect section, topics include: Pumpkin aphids, Management of cuke beetles, pumpkin pests and the use of trap crops and Admire for cucumber beetle control.

  • Click Here to go to the Pumpkin 101 topic menu.

    • See also the Research Results section on the home page if you just want to view a text version of the Perimeter Trap Crop report.

    Sweet Corn 101
    Ten topics including: Variety selection based on horticultural traits, sweet corn genetics, variety selection based on diseases, early corn production Bt corn, irrigation, Keep worms out, flea beetle management, sweet corn weed control and variety sensitivity, Bt corn in OH.
    Click Here! to go the Sweet Corn 101 Menu.
    Powerpoint presentations and Online HTML slide shows available.


    Pesticide Updates

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    • Do You know Us

    Find out what we've been up to in The OSU Vegetable Team Report. Click here to download the Veg Team report as a PDF file.

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    Bob's Video Vegetable Notes
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    Quicktime movie by Dr. C. Welty
    Western bean cutworm on sweet corn, Click Here!

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    2008 Vegetable Research Reports 


    Arranged alphabetically by crop or subject
    All 2007 research reports have been moved to "The Library"

    2008 Sweet Corn Disease Resistance and Herbicide Sensitivity Ratings

    The following are latest reports from Dr. Jerald Pataky's work at the Univ. of IL on reactions of sweet corn to common diseases. It also includes reactions to the herbicides Accent and Calisto.The 2008 disease nursery report presents only the results from the trials this year. The hybrid summary report which lists hybrid reactions based on trials from 1984 to 2008 will be posted on the web site at a later date.

  • Click Here to go to the IL sweet corn pathology website for all the reports and summary.

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    Copies can be emailed to or you can receive a hard copy. E-mail: Bob Precheur

    All Previous Vegetable Research Reports have moved to 'The Library'

    Click on the NY Library lion in the left hand menu bar and at the next menu, click on research reports.


    For more information... E-mail: Bob Precheur