D4<Lancastar Farming, Saturday, August 5, 2000 Vegetable, Small Fruit Field Day Aug. 14 ROCKSPRING'(Centre Co.) The 2000 Pennsylvania Vege table and Small Fruit Field Day is scheduled Aug. 14 here at the Russell E. Larson Research Center. Growers will have the oppor tunity to see firsthand the re search projects under way by Penn State at the research center. The center is located 11 miles west of State College on Rt. 45. The event is being sponsored jointly by Penn State Universi ty’s College of Agricultural Sci ences and the Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association. For growers in southeastern Pennsylvania, a bus to the field day will pick up growers at the Montgomery County 4-H Center and the Kutztown Pro duce Auction and bring them to Rockspring. The cost of the bus, which is sponsored by Penn State Cooperative Extension, is $5O per person and includes the field day registration fee and lunch. For more information, contact John Berry at (610) 391- 9840 or James Sargent at (215) 345-3283. The tentative schedule for the day’s events is as follows: • 8 a.m. Registration at the Horticulture Farm. Coffee and donuts will available. Growers can also visit with exhibitors. • 9 a.m. Tours of research plots. Researchers and support staff will be in the field to answer questions and comment about their research. Projects at the horticulture farm include weed control studies on various crops; variety evaluation studies on snap bean, tomato, pumpkin, potato, sweet com, summer squash, and spinach; tomato breeding for late blight and early blight resistance; sweet com nu trition, irrigation, and spacing study; colored mulch (polyethy lene) evaluation of nondegrad able and degradable types; paper mulch evaluation with tomato, pepper, and cantaloupe; high tunnel production with multiple cropping of horticul tural crops in 24 research high tunnels; strawberry weed con trol evalution of the effective ness of several new herbicide materials; and raspberry re search. • 12 p.m. Lunch. A hearty sandwich accompanied by fresh fruits and vegetables, other picnic items, and beverage will be provided. • 1:30 p.m. Demonstrations, The following equipment dem onstrations are currently planned. Additional ones may be scheduled as well: Monosem planter for onions, sweet com, snap beans, and no-till pump kins; stonefork for removing roots, rocks, and stones; Imants spading machine; stone burior; tined weeder; CDA herbicide sprayer; Airblast sprayer; vacuum seeder; transplanter tours of research plots at plant and entomology farms (a bus will be available to take inter ested persons to see research plots on these nearby farms). • 5 p.m. Adjourn. A highlight of the field day will be the 24 high tunnels that are part of the Center for Plasti culture at Penn State. Following is an outline of the trials being conducted in the tunnels. • Tomato Variety Trial Tunnels 1-4. A tomato variety trial is being conducted evaluat ing eight varieties: Mountain Spring, Mountain Fresh, Royal Mountie, Sunbeam, Daybreak, Ultra Sweet, Seedway 10250, and NC Grape. The tomato varieties will be evaluated for use in high tunnels with special emphasis on earliness, yield, and size of fruit. After the tomato crop, a green manure crop will be planted in three of the four tunnels and incorporated the following spring prior to again planting tomatoes. • Small Fruit Raspberry and Thornless Blackberry Variety Trial Tunnels 5 and 6. An evaluation of two methods of production, the “Earth Boxes growing system” and ground culture, will be conducted for brambles (raspberries and thornless blackberries). Tunnel 5 will have the Earth Boxes and Tunnel 6 will have the bare ground culture. The raspberry cultivars are Heritage and Autumn Britten, which are pri mocane-bearers, and Triple Crown is a thornless blackberry cultivar. (This summer these two tunnels will be converted to the Penn State High Tunnel Design). • Potato Transplant Trial Tunnel 7. A round white potato cultivar has been transplanted in four sets of double rows with an in-row spacing of 12 inches. Drip irrigation and fertigation will be used. Once the potatoes have been harvested, ornamen tal gourds will be planted on four raised beds covered with plastic mulch and using drip ir rigation tape. (During the summer, this tunnel will be con verted to the Penn State High Tunnels Design). Then a late fall planting of leafy greens one row each of kale, kohlrabi, loose-leaf lettuce, and endive will be made. • Summer Squash and Okra Tunnel 8. Two rows in this high tunnel will be planted with zucchini squash spaced two feet apart and the other two rows will be planted with double rows of transplanted okra cultivar Annie Oakley. The in-row spac ing will be 15 inches. Drip irriga tion and fertigation will be used. (During the summer this tunnel will be converted to the Penn State High Tunnels Design). A green manure crop will be estab lished for the winter. • Spinach Tunnel 9. This tunnel was direct-seeded to three double rows of spinach spaced 8 inches apart in the row and 12 inches between the double rows. The spinach will be harvested the first and second week in May. Once the spinach is harvested, slicing cucumbers will be transplanted on four rows of newly applied IRT plas tic mulch and drip irrigation tape. The cucumbers will be transplanted on a 12-inch by 12- inch spacing and will be planted in staggered double rows. • Bedding Plants Tunnel 10. The following varieties are planted in four rows on and IRT Plastic mulch with drip irriga tion and floating row cover over some of the plants (tempera tures have been monitored since last fall): Acntllea Anthea, Cam panula -Kent Belle, Leucan themum- Summer Snowball, Stokesia-Purple Parasols, Alehemilla Mollies , Campan- Chettle Charm, Chelone, Cro cosmia Lucifer, Sedum- Art Joy, Solidaster- Lemore, Salvia nem.,- Plumosa. This tunnel will be maintained for cut flower/bedding plant research. • Transplanted Romaine Let tuce Tunnel 11. Romaine let tuce was transplanted on Feb. 14, 2000 in double rows in the following replicated treatments: paper mulch from International Paper, bare ground and Earth Boxes covered with black mulch film. The spacing between the double rows was 12 inches with plants spaced 8 inches apart in the row. The lettuce was har vested the first week in May and Zavory Peppers developed by Dr. Paul Grun will be trans planted on four rows of newly applied IRT plastic mulch and drip irrigation tape. The peppers will be transplanted on a 12-inch by 12-inch spacing and will be planted in staggered double rows. • Potato Seedpiece Tunnel 12. Seedpieces of two varieties Early Dark Red Norland (an early, red-skinned, white flesh variety) and W8475R, a small B size red-skinned, white flesh potato were planted on March 17, 2000 in four rows with two replications. The in row spacing was 8 inches with the double rows being staggered. The four rows were covered mechanically with red plastic mulch and drip irrigation tape. One half of the potatoes were covered with a Typar, a floating row cover. The row cover mate Cornell To Host Fruit Field Day, Equipment Show Aug. 17 GENEVA, N.Y. Cornell University will host the Fruit Field Day and Equipment Show 2000 at the New York State Ag ricultural Experiment Station here Aug. 17 from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Fruit growers, consultants, and industry personnel are in vited to tour field plots and learn about the latest research and ex tension efforts in fruit produc tion by researchers from Geneva and Ithaca. The focus will be on all commodities key to New York’s $3OO million fruit indus try apples, grapes, raspber ries, strawberries, peaches, pears, cherries, and nectarines. New this year will be equip ment demonstrations by New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ontario dealers. Tunnel, electrostatic and airblast sprayers for apples and grapes, laser planting machines for grapes, micro sprinklers for irri gation, infrared sensors, tillage tools, mechanized planters and harvesters, tractors, and GPS mapping systems and more will be demonstrated next to re search plots. Tours will highlight fruit breeding and enology, produc tion systems, integrated pest management, physiology, water A LESSON WELL LEARNED... LANCASTER FARMING'S CLASSIFIER ADS GET RESULTS* rial did enhance the emergence and growth of the potatoes as has been observed in the field. The plastic mulch and drip irri gation tape will be removed prior to digging the potatoes. Once the potatoes are harvested, cauliflower will be transplanted on four raised beds with drip ir rigation. The spacing for the cauliflower will be double rows 12 inches by 16 inches. The po tential for establishment of an early winter cover crop follow ing the cauliflower will evalu ated. • Pepper Project Tunnels 13, 14,16, 17,18, 19, 21, 23 and 24. This is a M.S. research project being conducted by Eric Burkhart under Dr. Lament’s supervision. The title is “Inte grated Production of Bell Pepper (Capsicum annuum L. cultivar Paladin) using Com post, Drip Irrigation, and Season Extension Technology.’’ The objectives of the project are to assess and document the ef fects of composted manure ap plications on growth and yield of bell peppers, both alone and in combination with synthetic fertilizers; to assess and docu ment any differences in bell and nutrient management, fruit varieties and rootstocks, organic production systems, growth re gulators, GIS-based crop man agement, and the new vinification and brewing labora tory. Admission is free. Lunch will be provided courtesy of industry sponsors. 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