{"id":14552,"date":"2023-08-07T16:58:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=14552"},"modified":"2023-08-21T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T21:26:04","slug":"michigan-cucurbit-report-august-2-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2023\/08\/07\/michigan-cucurbit-report-august-2-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Cucurbit update | August 2, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canr.msu.edu\/dA\/8cda2ca3cb\/phytophthora%20on%20zuccs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canr.msu.edu\/dA\/8cda2ca3cb\/phytophthora%20on%20zuccs.jpg\" alt=\"Phytophthora on zuchini stem\" width=\"270\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phytophthora on zucchini, Photo credit by Ben Werling, MSU Extension.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Harvest of processing zucchini, fresh-market winter squash, and other cucurbits is underway in Michigan.<\/p>\n<h2>Strategies to control Phytophthora fruit rot<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Implement an aggressive spray program for Phytophthora fruit rot.<\/li>\n<li>When plant death and fruit rot caused by Phytophthora are observed, disk under affected plants and surrounding healthy ones.<\/li>\n<li>Do fieldwork in Phytophthora infested fields last, to avoid moving infested soil to sites without the pathogen.<\/li>\n<li>Power wash equipment to remove infested soil.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Lastly, some growers have a mix of \u201cvirgin\u201d ground and land with a history of the disease. If you are in this boat, . Then<\/p>\n<h2>Cucurbit downy mildew has been confirmed in Michigan<\/h2>\n<p>Five counties have reported capturing clade-2 Downy mildew spores through July 26. Clade-2 infects cucumbers, pickles and melons.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canr.msu.edu\/news\/michigan-vegetable-crop-report-august-2-2023?utm_source=cc&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=extensiondigests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategies to control Phytophthora fruit rot and Cucurbit downy mildew has been confirmed in Michigan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[399,319,116,526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14552"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14645,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552\/revisions\/14645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}