Bruce Kelly of Farm & Food Care Ontario wrote an article for The Grower about getting wet while helping evaluate how evenly an irrigation system applied water to a vegetable field.
Dickeya dianthicola, the new blackleg pathogen has the ability to remain dormant in tubers when temperatures are low e.g. at harvest time and in seed storages. Infected tubers look healthy at planting, but the disease develops when soil temperature increases.
