Greenhouse Flowers Report not available. Greenhouse Vegetables - Gillian Ferguson, Shalin Khosla Report not available. Potatoes - Eugenia Banks Report not available. The main Loring, Harrow Beauty season is almost complete in all areas. Fruit size and quality is still outstanding.
Most peach orchards have medium crops but now are picking out heavier than first thought.
Processing peaches are now in the late season with Veecling and Virgil winding down and Babygold 5 and Venture just starting harvest. Bacterial spot is a huge problem in the Babygold 5 variety but Venture has shown few problems. Plum pox virus, discovered in Niagara orchards early in the season, now has been found in several orchards affecting about a thirty growers in many locations in the province. It has been difficult for the Plum Pox Task Force to act on eradication as new positives are showing up weekly from the leaf samples. Some pullouts of positive trees have initiated but many decisions will be made later in the fall.