Updated VA specific label for Topsin-M

In my pruning time disease considerations (this link opens Google Drive with this year’s recommendation for trunk disease management), I refer to Topsin-M as a choice of trunk disease management, especially… Read more

Vineyard IPM workshops

I think many of you have received Tony’s newsletter about upcoming vineyard IPM workshops. Here’s the same information about workshops, just in case you are not a recipient of the… Read more

Fungicide application template

I have updated my fungicide application template that I have been using for my fungicide guides. If you are interested in, it can be downloaded from this link. (will open a… Read more

Slides and handouts for tonight’s master gardener trainee meeting

It’s bit off-topic for this blog, but we have a series of presentations at a local Master Gardener class tonight. Here are slides and handouts for the meeting. The major… Read more

See you all at the VVA meeting!

I have several presentations at the upcoming VVA meeting. Here are handouts for my presentations. If click the link, it will open a new window for Google Drive that contains… Read more

Winter time vineyard meetings 2017!

First of all, Happy New Year! I hope you had a nice holiday season. Here’s a table of upcoming vineyard meetings. 2017 Upcoming Virginia Vineyard Extension Meetings Program name Location… Read more

Rain rain…

It has been pretty wet week so far. At Winchester, we observed about 11 hours of wetness on the 26th with an average temperature of 64F, 50+ hours (and counting)… Read more

On these unusually slow ripening issues

Maybe I should keep posting that rains are coming… Each time I do, it looks like rains disappear. 😉 If you have not subscribed to the email list of Dr.… Read more

List of low PHI materials for Botrytis, powdery mildew, and downy mildew

Well, I was hoping that the rest of the season would be nice and sunny, but I was little naive. Looks like some portion of VA may be affected by… Read more

Last stretch!!

I heard that some of early cultivars are ready to be picked on 7-10 days.  Looks like no tropical storms to worry, yet… (crossing my fingers!) There have been frequent… Read more
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