It's just Hawkeye and Lens on this one!  As much of the region remains "abnormally dry," irrigation is the conversation.  Join us to get a gauge of how deep you need to take it,  learn to discern between good mites and bad mites,  and stay in the Healthy Fruit Loop.   

This episode is long like the week.. full of ups and downs, all fruitful if you chose to take a bite.   Hawkeye and Lens talk about near drought conditions and keep you in the loop with upcoming pests and diseases.  Extension Expert Sonia Schloemann sat down with Lens, virtually to talk about all things small fruit!  With PYO strawberries happening this weekend, you won't want to miss it!!

Water, and the circus seem to be this week's theme!  A special Thanks to Tree Fruit Expert, Jon Clements for joining Lens to chat about apple measuring, thinning, and irrigation.  (Clarification: When Lens refers to backyard pools, she is specifically referring to above-ground pools.)  Tune in to see things "Jon's Way."  Hawkeye and Lens also keep you in the loop by covering degree days, pests, diseases, and all Healthy Fruit matters.  

This week's scheduled guest speaker was unable to join Hawkeye and Lens. But Thrush, the rescue pup (AKA Trash Panda - he was rescued from a trash can. Hawkeye and family were lucky enough to get to adopt him) was kind enough to chip in his feeling on degree days, insect activity disease and small fruit. Tune in to hear what Thrush, Hawkeye and Lens have to say! 

Dr. Daniel Cooley from the UMass Stockbridge School of Agriculture joins Hawkeye and Lens to discuss current disease updates. Plus, we will cover all the usual Healthy Fruit news!

Hawkeye and Lens may have had too much fun making this episode but they still deliver timely horticultural and pest management strategies for your Integrated Pest Management (IPM) needs. This week; more plum curculio, diseases by Dr. Cooley and the skinny on thinning from Dr. Greene. 

This week in apples, Hawkeye and Lens talk plum curculio and apple scab. Notes from the field is back and small fruit updates are covered. 

This podcast is the audio version of the UMass Extension Fruit Team's Healthy Fruit Newsletter.  In this week's episode our production manager, Lyndsey leads us into a new way to deliver the most up to date crop information to YOU! After all, you are why we all at Extension do what we do. Adapted from the Healthy Fruit newsletter published on April 14, 2020.