Pest Management Publications

Beans

• Common Bacterial Blight and Halo Blight: Two Bacterial Diseases of Phytosanitary Significance for Bean Crops in Washington State (pdf).
• Vegetables: Growing Green Beans in Home Gardens (pdf).

Corn

• Corn Earworm Pest of Sweet Corn (pdf). FS221E. In the US, sweet corn’s most destructive insect pest is the corn earworm. With the goal of aiding commercial producers and crop consultants, this publication describes the biology of corn earworms.
• Vegetables: Growing Sweet Corn in Home Gardens (pdf). FS104E.
• 2012 ISCDA Multi-location Sweet Corn Seed Treatment Trial (PDF). The Seed Treatment Committee of the International Sweet Corn Development Association (ISCDA) organizes a seed treatment trial every year. Researchers at locations across the U.S. evaluate the selected set of treatments for their effect on seedling stand and vigor.
• Corn Smuts (pdf): PNW647. Oregon State University, University of Idaho, Washington State University.
• Plant Population Evaluations of Processing Sweet Corn in the Columbia Basin (pdf). This trial was conducted to provide information about the effects of plant population density on three sweet corn hybrids grown in the Columbia Basin.

Onion

• Internal Dry Scale and Associated Bulb Rots of Onion (pdf). Onion growers and packers in the Pacific Northwest have observed a problem on red, white, and yellow cultivars: internal dry scale. PNW686.
• Strip-Tillage for Onions and Sweet Corn – Lorin Grigg (pdf). Farmer-to-Farmer Case Study Series: Increasing resilience among farmers in the Pacific Northwest, by Georgine Yorgey, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University and Andrew McGuire, Irrigated Cropping Systems Agronomist, Washington State University Extension (PNW702).

Potato

• Bacterial Ring Rot on Potatoes (pdf). This fact sheet outlines the disease cycle of ring rot, and approaches for sanitation and control by commercial potato growers and seed potato growers alike.
• Bacterial Soft Rot and Lenticel Spot on Potato Tubers (pdf). Bacterial lenticel spot is one manifestation of bacterial soft rot on potato which is initiated at tuber lenticels. Soft rot is a wet, mushy rot of plant tissues that progresses rapidly.
• Lygus bugs on potatoes in the Pacific Northwest (pdf). Josephine Antwi, Silvia I. Rondon, and Rodney Cooper, Oregon State University Extension Service Bulletin EM9173, 2017.
• Silver Scurf Management in Potatoes (pdf), Oregon State University, University of Idaho, Washington State University.

Tomato

• Injerto de Verduras: Berenjenas y Tomates (pdf). Hoja informativa de la Universided Estatal de Washington FS052ES. 4 páginas. Publicado Agosto 2013.
• Physiological Leaf Roll of Tomato (pdf). A fact sheet prepared by The Pacific Northwest Vegetable Extension Group.

Biodegradable Mulch

• Important considerations for the use of biodegradable mulch in crop production (pdf). Provides a summary of dimension, cost, labor requirements and laying BDMs by machine according to the size of the field.
• Biodegradable plastic mulch and sustainability for sustainable and organic agriculture (pdf). Provides the usage of plastic mulch in agriculture, making BDMs and prospects for plastic BDM in organic and sustainable agriculture.

Home Vegetable Gardening

• Home Vegetable Gardening in Washington (pdf). This full-color guide to growing vegetables in a Washington home garden setting covers growing conditions, how to plant seeds and transplants, ways to arrange vegetables.
• Growing Peppers in Home Gardens (pdf). FS220E.
• Vegetables: Growing Cucumbers in Home Gardens (pdf).
• Vegetables: Growing Squash in Home Gardens (pdf). FS087E.

Insects

• Blister Beetles: Pest or Beneficial Predator (pdf). This fact sheet assists producers in recognizing blister beetles and understanding their importance as beneficial predators, as well as their potential to be toxic to livestock.
• Western corn rootworm in eastern Oregon, Idaho, and eastern Washington (pdf). PNW662.
• The Potential of Marigolds to Control Insect Pests and Plant Parasitic Nematodes (PDF). Ekaterini Riga, Sustaining the Pacific Northwest, August 2009.

Grafting

• Injertos Hortícolas: Sandía (pdf). Hoja de datos de la Extensión, Universidad Estatal de Washington FS100ES. 7 páginas. Publicado enero 2014.
• Non-grafted and Grafted Seedless Watermelon Transplants: Comparative Economic Feasibility Analysis (pdf).  A guide for evaluating the physical and financial requirements and economic feasibility of growing seedless watermelon transplants, both non-grafted and grafted, in a greenhouse, as well as using grafted transplants to produce seedless watermelon in Washington.
• Vegetable Grafting: Eggplant and Tomato (pdf). WSU Extension Fact Sheet FS052E, 4 pages. Published October 2011.
• Vegetable Grafting: The Healing Chamber (pdf). WSU Extension Fact Sheet EFS051, 3 pages. Published October 2011.
• Vegetable Grafting: Watermelon (pdf). WSU Extension Fact Sheet FS100E, 7 pages. Published January 2013.

Others

• Small-Scale Cost-Effective Hot Water Seed Treatment. By Frank Morton (Wild Garden Seed), Tom Stearns (High Mowing Seeds), Nick Andrews (OSU Small Farms Extension).
  Hot Water Treatment (pdf).
• Baby-Leaf Salad Green Production Guide for Western Washington (pdf). Lettuce is the top-grossing fresh market vegetable crop in the United States, with salad mixes featuring baby-leaf greens becoming increasingly popular among consumers who desire to eat healthy.
• Production of Brassica Seed Crops in Washington State: A Case Study on the Complexities of Coexistence (pdf). This document was developed in response to the numerous controversial issues surrounding production of brassica vegetable seed crops, brassica oilseed crops, brassica oilseed seed crops, brassica cover crops
• 2006 Specialty Carrot Cultivar Evaluation – Othello, WA (pdf). Tim Waters, Sustaining the Pacific Northwest, April 2007.
• Growing Vegetables in Areas Where Soils Were Contaminated with Heavy Metals (PDF). Sacha Johnson and Carol Miles, Sustaining the Pacific Northwest, March 2009.
• Management of Damping-off in Organic Vegetable Crops in the Pacific Northwest (PDF). Ana Vida Alcala and Lindsey du Toit, Sustaining the Pacific Northwest, December 2009.
• Research Program on Nematodes & Their Economic Importance in Washington State (PDF). Ekaterini Riga, Sustaining the Pacific Northwest, December 2003.
• Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) Proposed Rule for Produce Safety: Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption (pdf). The FDA’s website provides some highlights about the rule, who the rule covers, compliance information, and where to go for more information. This proposed rule has major potential ramifications for freshly consumed foods, including many vegetables.

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