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09-14-2009, 05:51 PM
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"Standing On the Side of Love"
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Originally Posted by Maine Writer
Do your tomato plants look like these plants? I think it sounds more like late blight than frost. If you decide it is late blight or want to be on the safe side the plants should be pulled and thrown away in plastic trash bags. I lost $10,000 to this disease this year. |
Maine Writer......thank you.....it could be that "late blight" and if it is....I pulled the vines and threw them in an area down near the woods where I am filling....and some of the vines already went into the compost.....I think I will just refrain from doing tomatoes for a couple of years. My vegetable growing is more a hobby and less than a half dozen plants....if I innoculated the soil and compost with a blight....   It was out of ignorance....but too late. |
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09-14-2009, 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Maine Writer
Do your tomato plants look like these plants? I think it sounds more like late blight than frost. If you decide it is late blight or want to be on the safe side the plants should be pulled and thrown away in plastic trash bags. I lost $10,000 to this disease this year. |
 Did you lose all your tomatoes? |
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09-14-2009, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Casper1212
I don't know what happened to mine. They all suddenly started to die and rot after all the rain stopped. Probably blight, MW?
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Yes. It wiped out a lot of plants in your area. I'll be looking for resistant varieties next year. |
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09-14-2009, 07:49 PM
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Yes. It wiped out a lot of plants in your area. I'll be looking for resistant varieties next year.
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Sorry to hear of your tomato loss this year MW. It was a tough year for tomatoes all over the place. My brother's tomatoes all split from so much rain. Very few of them were any good. Lots of mushrooms around now though! |
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09-15-2009, 02:36 PM
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We got lucky with the tomatoes and the cukes this year. Had more than we could eat. But I would have had more if the blight hadn't gotten them. Wonder if all the rain had anything to do with it. It's strange. They seem fine, then just suddenly develop a rotton spot that spreads.
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09-15-2009, 04:16 PM
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A rotten spot on the vine or the tomato?
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09-15-2009, 04:24 PM
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My brother's cukes got some weird disease this year. They turned round as a baseball with little tails and the seeds inside were hard as a rock. You could not eat them at all.
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09-16-2009, 09:26 AM
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See ya'll in the Spring
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It's time for us to head back to WV for the winter. Outside of the really wet weather this summer, it was wonderful being here with good friends and family. We got a last luncheon in with about 14 CD'ers on Sunday and now it's time to shut down the house, get the water lines drained and filled with RV antifreeze and start back tomorrow morning. Ya'll have a safe and wonderful winter and mensaguy and I will see ya'll in the Spring.
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09-16-2009, 11:24 AM
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Our garlic has done well this year.
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09-16-2009, 01:05 PM
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Being "impartial" is not necessarily a bad thing.
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Originally Posted by Maine Writer
Do your tomato plants look like these plants? I think it sounds more like late blight than frost. If you decide it is late blight or want to be on the safe side the plants should be pulled and thrown away in plastic trash bags. I lost $10,000 to this disease this year. |
Yep. That's what happened to my Roma tomatoes. Thanks for the link MW. I did manage to get around 30 or so before they started to look like that.
I feel fortunate as my friend who is a huge gardener planted 50 plants and ended up with 10 tomatoes out of her whole crop because of blight.
Sorry to hear that you lost $10,000! |
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