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What can I plant where my tomatoes died?
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Posted by ilazria TN (My Page) on Tue, Nov 3, 09 at 22:53
| I had an amazing tomato garden, until it drowned in all the rain we got in TN this year. I'm not sure if it was root rot, or a disease. The leaves started getting brown spots, and the stems and leaves were dying. Within a couple of weeks, my thriving tomato jungle was a mess of exploded tomatoes and dead foliage.
To be on the safe side, I'm wanting to plant different things in this plot next year, and grow the tomatoes and such in another area. I was thinking of turning the whole bed into a pumpkin/ gourd patch. Will this work out ok? Do tomato diseases also attack pumpkins? I had some bushel gourds growing around the fence on this bed, and they seemed to be fine. I wanted to check first, though, just to be sure. |
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RE: What can I plant where my tomatoes died?
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| Many tomatoes were afflicted with late blight this year so you do not want to plant anything in the very large tomato family which includes peppers, potatoes, egg plant, etc. Members of the squash family could be planted as long as you made sure the nutrient levels were where they should be. Lettuce, any root crop, legumes could also be planted there. |
RE: What can I plant where my tomatoes died?
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| If you can you might want to add some additional soil or compost into the area to raise it a little. With the type of heavy rain most areas had this year nothing would help but you would also be enriching your soil. It was so bad that I left several bags of stuff beside the food garden to divert some of the rain and filled in the gullies that formed before I noticed the problem. |
RE: What can I plant where my tomatoes died?
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| Thanks :) I do have some deep trenches dug between each section, to try to keep the water from puddling in the spring, when the heavy rains try to turn my clay soil into a swamp. I'm working on amending my soil to make it less dense, but it's still a work in progress. |
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