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| In my first full year of retirement I have 70 tomato plants out and was hoping to do some canning, sharing with friends and family and possibly have some fun at the Farmers Market ! But here in So. Indiana we had rain and it was cloudy nearly every single day in May and June. We have had more sunshine and heat in the last week and half than we had in May and June put together. I have watered at the base and have compost mulch on all of my plants ! Yet somehow I have a couple plants with what looks to be blight. One really bad and one next to it is starting to look bad. They have some nice green tomatoes on them and I hate to pull them yet if I dont I fear several other plants will be affected. It breaks my heart after all the work I have done ( starting from seed for the first time etc) that I might lose my plants. I'm really not fond of fried green tomatoes. I guess I could make a green tomato relish with the green ones on the plants I have to pull ! Should I pull them now ? |
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- Posted by Marshallkey (My Page) on Wed, Jul 17, 13 at 11:06
| These are Better Boy tomatoes . 8 nice tomatoes on one plant and 7 on the other affected one and several smaller green tomatoes forming higher on both . |
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- Posted by Marshallkey none (My Page) on Wed, Jul 17, 13 at 11:08
| These are some of my Marianna's Peace Heirlooms a coulple rows away . They look fine still ! |
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- Posted by Marshallkey none (My Page) on Wed, Jul 17, 13 at 11:11
| More Mariannas Peace several well over a pound ! |
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| Your "blight" is not a blight, it is Septoria. There is no need to pull the plants. Just remove the spotted leaves, seal them in a plastic bag and send the sealed bag to the landfill. Don't be afraid of making the plants look bare-stemmed, because those spotty leaves will die and fall off by themselves anyway, and they will only spread the disease while they remain on the plant. Then get a good fungicide that is labeled for Septoria on tomatoes and spray the healthy foliage often according to the directions on the label. When you water the plants, avoid getting the foliage wet or letting water splash from the leaves of one plant onto another. Septoria spreads by air currents and splashing water, and grows rapidly on damp foliage. At the end of the season, make sure you clean up the garden and remove all the tomato leaves and stems. Do not put them in the compost because if your compost doesn't get hot enough to destroy the spores, they will live over winter on the old tomato debris and reinfect next year's plants. |
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| Yes. Spray, spray, spray. Glad to see it's not fatal. This is definitely the time of year to be vigilant. Lost most of my tomatoes in about 3 days time about 5 years ago to the late blight that swept through the NE. I don't mess around anymore! |
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- Posted by Marshallkey none (My Page) on Wed, Jul 17, 13 at 18:32
| Thx will spray , spray , spray . Thx so much for the info ! Hope it works !!!! |
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