1998 VEGETABLE DAY
June 25, 1998
Horticultural Crops Research Station
Clinton, NC

Registration: 3:30 p.m.

Program: 3:45 to 6:30 p.m.

Dinner and displays: 6:30 p.m.

Highlights: Cucumber, watermelon and sweetpotato breeding and variety evaluations; weed management research on multiple vegetable crops; cultural practice research on many vegetable crops.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

There will be three concurrent tours as follows. (These are tentative!)

Tour 1-

• L4a (McCuistion & T Wehner, Watermelon???)
• L4b (K Sorensen, Sweetpotato, pepper and BT sweetcorn insect management.)
• M8 (G Roberson & D Sanders, cucumber)
• R3-4-8-9 (T Wehner, Cucumber and watermelon breeding)
• O13 (T Ellington & T Wehner, Luffa breeding)
• O10 (C Yencho, sweetpotato nursery)

Tour 2-

• N10 (D Sanders, Pepper & tomato varieties and fertigation)
• N19 (L Jackson & T Wehner, Watermelon GSB)
• N20 (J Schultheis, Auxigrow growth regulator on pickling cucumbers)
• K23 (D Monks, Vegetable weed management.)
• K22 (W Mitchem, IR4 program new protectants for squash)

Tour 3-

• A11 (K Pecota, Sweetpotato breeding)
• B1 (R Bullock & J Ristaino, Soil health and disease in tomatoes.Pepper)
• F2,7 (F Louws, G Holmes & D Sanders, Methyl bromide alternatives for pepper tomato and melon)
• F8 (J Ristaino, Phytophora management in pepper)
• G4 (L Campbell, Curcubit leafspot diseases management)
• G3 (B Harrison & D Sanders, Gobo plant population and culture)
• G10 (D Monks, Plastics and nutsedge management)
• G11 (D Adams & J Schultheis, Reduction of skinning in sweetpotato)
• G12 (Strange & T Wehner, Watermelon?)
• B?? or M??(G Jennings & R McLaughlin Level/spreader)

Sponsored by:
North Carolina State University
North Carolina Agricultural Research Service
North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
North Carolina Vegetable Growers Association

For information, call Tom Monaco, (919)515-3131

Web page last updated on June 1, 1998 by Stephen J. Toth, Jr..