'Early Season Grape Disease Management, Spring 2020' by Katie Gold
Jim Meyers, Viticulture Specialist
Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture
July 27, 2020
Early season grape disease control is critical for season long protection. Most grape pathogens prefer soft, succulent tissues and immature berries. If disease is allowed to take hold during the early season, late season control will become near to impossible at worst, and incredibly challenging (and expensive) at best. Early season disease control pays for itself. Management in the early season in New York primarily focuses on five diseases: phomopsis, black rot, downy mildew, powdery mildew, and anthracnose.
Early Season Grape Disease Management, Spring 2020 (pdf; 673KB)

