Developing horticultural crops that can be economically produced and marketed from southern Ohio, enhancing the income of family farms.
Areas of Emphasis:
1) Cultivar trials and evaluation for southern Ohio conditions of speciality colored peppers, eastern muskmelons, pumpkins, extra firm fresh market tomatoes, indian corn, and chinese cabbage; 2) The effect of date of planting on stinkbug damage of tomatoes; 3) Management of insects on tomatoes-tomato integrated pest management (IPM) study; 4) Pumpkin powdery mildew resistance observation; 5) Speciality/oriental crops production and marketing trials for southern Ohio; 6) Once over mechanical harvest timing and economics for processing peppers in southern Ohio; 7) No-Till pumpkins into fall and spring seeded cover crops; 8) Control of root knot nematode in tomatoes; 9) Trickle and fertigation effects on pumpkin yield and Quility; 10) Evaluation of fungicide application and timing for disease control ; 11) Fertilizer sources and applications on yield and quility of pumpkins; 12) Evaluation of ZIRAM fungicide programs for tomato disease control ; 13) Bacterial spot resistant peppers cultivar observation for Southern Ohio; 14) Mechanical Pepper Harvest Demonstration for Processing Peppers in Southern Ohio