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Project Leaders: Charles Bornt, Cornell Cooperative Extension Capital District
Vegetable Program
Cooperators: Ted Blomgren, Cornell Cooperative Extension Capital District Vegetable
Program Al Lansing, Lansings Farm Market, Colonie, Albany County, New York Steve
Reiners, Department of Horticulture, NYSAES, Cornell University Robin Bellinder,
Department of Horticulture, Cornell University
Type of Grant: Systems Comparison Trial
Project locations: Lansings Farm Market, Colonie, Albany County, New York Cornell
Research Farm, Valatie, Columbia County, New York
Abstract: Adequate weed control in pumpkins and squash is one of the most difficult
practices for growers to obtain whether it is in a reduced-tillage system or conventional
bare ground culture. Reduced-till pumpkin trials established in Albany County this
year to evaluate a new post emergent herbicide called Sandea (halosulfuron-methyl,
Gowan Company) were established. However, a poor stand of rye and high populations
of perennial weeds not controlled with Round-Up applications, resulted in poor pumpkin
establishment and poor annual weed control using Sandea. The cover crop trial to
be established at the Valatie Research farm also had its share of problems. Due
to the late funding of this IPM project, planting of spring oats was not able to
be completed, the triticale plots were plowed and it was determined that there was
not enough sorghum sudangrass residue to complete that treatment either. However,
a bare ground winter squash trial comparing the effects of Sandea on transplant
cell size, squash type and different varieties within a type was established.
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