They say beauty is more than skin deep – and that’s certainly the case for brown etch on butternut pumpkins.

While these blemishes do not affect the pumpkin’s orange flesh, the development of brown etch means butternuts may be left to rot, fed to pigs or sent to landfill.

To find out how you can predict when brown etch is likely to occur in a crop, and what you can do to control it, watch this webinar recording from the Soil Wealth ICP team.

The webinar also discusses a new fact sheet that is a must-have guide for all pumpkin growers.

This resource has been produced by the Hort Innovation-funded Soil Wealth and ICP project – jointly delivered by RM Consulting Group and Applied Horticultural Research.