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Posted by mouse182 Upstate NY (My Page) on Sat, Aug 15, 09 at 14:45
| I was wondering if anyone else in the Upstate New York region particularly around Binghamton, NY has had the unfortunate tomato blight affect their gardens this year, 2009. I was growing some box car willie tomatoes in my home garden and at first they appeared to grow very nicely and then as the green fruit began growing more and more I noticed the disease was spreading and eventually it reached the tomatoes. I wound up losing all of those to the tomato blight. I do have a few plum tomatoes that I had bought at the Home Depot and so far they are growing nicely. I was able to harvest three so far. My green peppers, celery, lettuce, zuchinni, cucumbers and sunflowers are all doing very well. |
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| I haven't had problems with late blight, but early blight has affected most of my tomato plants. Fortunately most plants had set fruit before getting hit. I'm still getting a good crop of tomatoes. However, I'll be yanking out these plants and putting them on the burn pile once these tomatoes are ripened. |
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It has been an aweful tom year.
LB has been reported almost everywhere in NY. Here's the latest list of counties that have been *confirmed* infected by Cornell University as of July 15: New York Counties with late blight reports: (Please note that this list only reflects counties from which samples have been submitted to the Cornell diagnostic lab or have reported on the late blight listserv. Late blight may be present in additional counties) Albany Cattaraugus Chenango Clinton Columbia Cortland Dutchess Erie Essex Franklin Fulton Genesee Jefferson Lewis Livingston Monroe Nassau Niagara Oneida Onondaga Ontario Orange Oswego Orleans Otsego Putnam Rensselear Saratoga Schenectady St. Lawrence Steuben Suffolk Tioga Tompkins Ulster Warren Washington Wayne Westchester Wyoming |
Here is a link that might be useful: Weekly Late Blight Update
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| I am in Chemung county and my tom's have been hit by late blight, several friend too. It's so frustrating. |
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I live in Saratoga County and have had to pull my tomatoes that have blight. I spoke with our master gardener from Cornell Cooperative Ext. He said that it is airborn, can travel up to 2 miles. He stated to pull them careful not to shake and release the spores. Bag them up in black garbage bags, bake in the sun for 5 dys then dispose of.
I grew most of mine from seed and bought a few from our local hometown nursery. Boy was I upset, no fresh tomatoes. Good luck everyone, it seems to be bad. |
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| Mine are being affected also. I had to pull two plants last night and have one left I am trying to save. The fruit is starting to ripen on this one and the fruit has not been affected so far, which is the main reason why I am trying to save it. I can't seem to cut the bad foliage off fast enough. Ugh! |
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| I've had it but I'm in Albany. I had to destroy half my plants. I also ended up with moldy dead zucchini and cucumber plants which were in close proximity. Not sure if they are realated, but its all due to the rain we had in July. This is the second year in a row I've had tomato woes, albeit my first experience with LB. |
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| They have to add Seneca County to that list. I grow all my own tomatoes from seed and have never had late blight problems before. A friend called me last week to say he lost all his tomatoes in about 2 days, and yesterday it showed up on one variety of mine. I have trimmed the plants back but maybe I should go pull them - a major loss for me as there are my favorite paste/canning tomatoes. I grow around 100 plants each year, this year 9 different OP varieties. This is horrible!!!! -Rosalinda |
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All that work we put into growing these and mine are all pretty much gone.I'm burning all my plants.
Gene |
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- Posted by aurore Zone 4/5 NY (My Page) on
Wed, Aug 26, 09 at 23:37
We got some blight- Otsego. So far I've been fighting it off with copper sprays and removal of leaves and badly effected plants. Don't know who'll win - me or the disease.
So what's the difference between early and late blight? Just the time you get it? |
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| My tomatoes started out really well but after our last rain surge I started noticing die back and tomatoes being infected. I have never experienced blight before so wasn't sure what was going on with my tomatoes. The plant affected the most was my Early Girl. I have been cutting them back but at this point I may end up destroying them. Penny |
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| I lost the large majority of my tomatoes, with just about all the green ones rotting. I pulled almost everything. My Stupice tomato plants were affected, but the tomatoes were mostly blight free and have been ripening, so I have had some to eat. I only plant a few of these each year for salad toms. My Marvel Stripe resisted the longest, and though the majority of the tomatoes were blighted, the plants did give me a few blight free tomatoes. With the turn to dry weather the plants actually appear to be recovering, but it is so late in the season I don't expect I will get more than a few small green tomatoes. I have managed to eke out 15 quarts of mostly green tomato sauce, not up to its normal standard, but better than nothing. Just about all my other crops are doing well, though the cukes and melons were also blighted with cuke diseases, despite having no cuke beetles this year. I still got a decent crop of both, despite the cold weather. It has been a tough year....
-Rosalinda |
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| My tomatoes were hit really bad this year too. I did get to pickle some green tomatoes but I got very few red. This was my first year at this property to plant tomatoes and I was very disappointed. |
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