Market tomatoes are on the third string as fruits have developed in early plantings two inches or more in size. Vines look very good with no diseases seen. Potatoes planted early have now gone beyond bloom. Tubers are developing well with two inch or larger found in the hills. Leafhoppers are now easily found with ten or more per 20 sweeps in several smaller fields that were not treated with systemics at planting.
Sweet corn continues to develop well with tassels now showing in earlier planted fields.
There are a lot of corn borer larva present. European corn borer moth counts in traps this week dropped to 26 per trap, down from last week's 66 and 228 the week earlier. Cabbage continues to look good in most fields with several growers now harvesting a good pack. 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.