Transplanting of many warm season crops is finishing up and pumpkin seeding has been active. Fruits on earliest melons are walnut size and first summer squash harvest should be coming in shortly. We ve had warmer and drier weather a welcomed change. We received less than a half inch in showers last Thursday, June 15 and Tuesday, June 20. Crop development has improved.
Commodities report Latest carrot fields are emerging.
Late planted pea fields are in bloom. Sweet corn growth has improved but still not what we would like to see. Snap beans planting is progressing with stands of earlier fields looking good. Earliest potato fields have been hilled and are starting to flower. Mid season plantings are being cultivated and nitrogen is being applied.