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1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Tim Elkner

   Growers: Your Vegetables Are Talking – Are You Listening? (opens the original)

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   Signs with this message are seen at railroad crossings without gates and lights. As I was at the pumpkin sale at Leola this month, looking in the bins to see what problems growers were having this year, I thought those three words could also be good advice for growers during harvest and packing. If you stop and take a good close look at what is in the bins and baskets (or what’s been left behind in the field) you will soon realize that your crop is talking to you about how things were this gro

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2. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Tim Elkner

   Managing Fusarium Wilt and Pythium Root Rot in Watermelons (opens the original)

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   I often receive calls from vegetable growers who are seeing plants collapse at the start of harvest. Producing fruit puts stress on plants that usually peaks about the time the crop starts to ripen. Many diseases become visible around or shortly before harvest, although in many cases they were present before then. I would put some of the root diseases into this category — particularly fusarium wilt and pythium root rot of watermelon. The first sign of one of these diseases is usually wilting o

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