Wooster Unit 2 May/June Updates
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
May weather:
Precipitation is the story so far.
2025 Season
The 2025 Growing Season is Off to a Promising Start
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
A few weeks ago (April 22), we officially hit the starting line of the 2025 growing season. Despite some late pruning in our cold-hardy hybrid block, we are now finally at greater than 50% bud break in all cultivars at Hort Unit 2 in Wooster (Table 1).
January 2025 Polar Vortex Update
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
While we anticipate yet another round of arctic air here in Ohio this coming week, we are forecast to be well-above the temperatures we achieved just a few weeks ago (>0F) and not expecting compounding injury from January.
Winter Weather Alert - January 22, 2025
They say history doesn’t repeat, rather it rhymes. And right now, it’s feeling much like January 2014-2015 over here:
