Highlights from The Horticultural Field Night, August 16, 1999 Plus The Eastern OH Muskmelon Crop


Tour host and guide Brad Bergefurd welcomes the crowd of about 80 visitors to the pumpkin germplasm evaluation. Here about 22 cultivars are being evaluated for their horticultural quality and their resistance to Powdery Mildew and certain virus diseases.

For more information on all the research and results, call Brad Bergefurd at 1-800-860-7232; e-mail bergefurd.1@osu.edu

Dr. Mac Riedel shows the crowd an example of bacterial wilt in pumpkins and discusses control measures. Dr. Celeste Welty, not shown, discussed control of cucumber beetles and other pumpkin pests.



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