Blossom End Rot

If you have tomatoes with a sunken, brown leathery patch on the bottom of the fruit, you probably have blossom end rot. Though most common on tomatoes, blossom end rot…

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Got calcium? Your tomatoes need it

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Your beautiful tomato plant is setting fruit and soon has nice green tomatoes. Then, to your horror, a dark, sunken spot shows up at the bottom of…

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Bacterial Spot of Peach

This bacterial disease is a common disease in Kansas but rarely causes extensive losses in fruit quality or production. The disease affects leaves, fruit, and occasionally twigs. Leaf infections first…

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Thousand Cankers Disease of Walnut

Black walnut is ecologically and economically important to Missouri, and thousand cankers disease (TCD) represents a serious threat to this resource. TCD occurs when the walnut twig beetle (WTB), Pityophthorus…

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Check out this weeks K-State Newsletter

Check it out HERE There are a bunch of great articles relevant to what many of us are going to deal with in the garden this summer: Do Not Over-Fertilize…

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