Slicing cucumbers are beginning to be harvested along with the zucchini and summer squash . One field of zucchini has had more than a 50 percent plant loss with plants wilting. Current wisdom has not identified this as a disease. Possibly there has been leaching of Curbit with more than 7 inches of rain since planting. Small melons are beginning to develop on the muskmelons planted earliest.
Cucumber beetles continue to be present in large numbers.
Cool, cloudy conditions have slowed the growth of warm season crops such as corn, peppers, and eggplant. Commodities report Sweet corn grown under row covers is at pollination, other early plantings have the tassel visible in the whorl. Corn borer activity is evident. Volume harvest of summer squash and zucchini will begin this week from early set transplants. Poor pollination, wind damage and phytophthora are the main problems.