Illinois vegetable producer: “Too cold. Too wet. Too windy.”

The Daily Journal

Vegetable producer Larry Munson summed up the spring crop season in six words: “Too cold. Too wet. Too windy.”

Cool weather crops like the lettuce Munson features at the Kankakee County Farmers Market “are OK,” he said at the market last Saturday.

Warm season crops aren’t growing well. “The corn is growing too slow,” he said. “One variety of sweet corn didn’t come up at all ... That’s one of the risks of planting early ...
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Bob Blain. of Riverfront Berry Farm, west of Martinton, said the cool, wet weather has caused some problems with the fungal disease anthracnose in his strawberries, but that fruit and vegetable growers elsewhere have much more serious problems.
Anthracnose causes black spots to develop on the leaves and berries, making them unmarketable.