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Post by Martin on Aug 2, 2011 19:33:33 GMT -4
I am battling tomato blight-Egads! Yikes! I'm sorry to hear that!! ~Martin
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Aug 2, 2011 21:12:01 GMT -4
Julie, did you mulch under the plants with straw or something to keep the dirt from splashing up on the plants?
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Aug 2, 2011 21:15:26 GMT -4
Also, I know we had this conversation partially last year, but I just was reading in the Gardeners Supply catalog that Seranade is all natural, and is for both early and late blight. I also remember someone saying something negative about it, but I am not sure. So, can we discuss this stuff again and if anyone has used it successfully to fight blight?
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Post by Martin on Aug 2, 2011 21:24:26 GMT -4
I haven't used Serenade, not that I can remember anyway. I have used Champ WG with success, but, unfortunately, my source for that seems to have dried up. ~Martin
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Post by capecmom on Aug 2, 2011 21:29:17 GMT -4
I mulched with landscape fabric. I also clipped the lower branches up as the tomato plant got bigger. They looked so awesome! They are 4-5' high and loaded with tomatoes! I had read that serenade was good but I was leery about chemicals....If I can't get ahead of it-should I just pull the plants and save the green tomatoes off of them? The blight seems to be only on one side of the garden. I still have some smaller tomato plants on the other side that look fine. I also noticed that it is starting to affect my second potato crop......So far my peppers and eggplant seem fine-they are gorgeous too!
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Aug 2, 2011 21:32:12 GMT -4
I haven't used Serenade, not that I can remember anyway. I have used Champ WG with success, but, unfortunately, my source for that seems to have dried up. ~Martin The problem with the Serenade is the dang shipping costs. I got it last time at a hardware store up in Littleton NH, at the time there wasn't a store within 100 miles that had it here. I will say this, even though we haven't had the weather, since I sprayed the dirt after that season of bad blight, I haven't seen any signs of it, but I was feeling guilty after spraying it because someone said it was no good. But now I read it is all natural ingedients and can be applied and food harvested the same day no wait....I'm confused.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Aug 2, 2011 21:41:04 GMT -4
I mulched with landscape fabric. I also clipped the lower branches up as the tomato plant got bigger. They looked so awesome! They are 4-5' high and loaded with tomatoes! I had read that serenade was good but I was leery about chemicals....If I can't get ahead of it-should I just pull the plants and save the green tomatoes off of them? The blight seems to be only on one side of the garden. I still have some smaller tomato plants on the other side that look fine. I also noticed that it is starting to affect my second potato crop......So far my peppers and eggplant seem fine-they are gorgeous too! Weren't we told a couple years ago during the bad blight NOT to can those tomatoes because the blight negatively affected the storage properties or something to that effect.
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Post by capecmom on Aug 3, 2011 5:42:33 GMT -4
I don't remember about the canning-I'll look around the net. I wonder tho-are they OK to eat? The tomatoes I have inside now look fine even tho they are green.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Aug 3, 2011 6:47:04 GMT -4
Well, we ate ours a couple years ago, we did not can any of those though.
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Post by capecmom on Aug 3, 2011 7:45:15 GMT -4
OK so I found that you can eat them but not can them. I went and pulled about 8 plants that I thought were toast. I put them in a big black garbage bag and trimmed the heck out of the ones that I thought would survive-providing I can find a better spray for them today...
Hopefully the tomatoes that seemed ok off of those plants will ripen on the counter.
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Post by capecmom on Aug 3, 2011 9:58:54 GMT -4
Well I just came back from Walmart-they had an organic fungicide that said it would take care of the blight...we'll see-I just sprayed the heck out of them. I also sprayed the ground where I pulled the other ones. Sprayed the potatoes too.
I hate going to Town-but going early was good-just as I was leaving the touristos were on the move. The paper said business at the beaches is up 50%. Maybe it's a good thing I haven't gone that much-I hate it when it's crowded.
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Post by Martin on Aug 3, 2011 10:54:45 GMT -4
I'd never heard before that it's not a good idea to can tomatoes from blighted plants. Have you ever seen a commercial tomato field? LOL
If there are no lesions on the fruits and the pith in the stems is clear green, what difference could it make?
When folks say stuff like that (especially on the internet) without giving a good reason (that makes sense) I just ignore it!
Julie, Is it Early Blight, Late Blight or Septoria? Have you seen lesions on leaves, stems and fruits?
~Martin
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Post by capecmom on Aug 3, 2011 11:00:45 GMT -4
I looked at pics on the net and it looks like early blight.
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Post by Martin on Aug 3, 2011 11:09:36 GMT -4
If you're not seeing lesions on fruits and stems early on and it hasn't affected your potatoes almost immediately after you noticed it on your tomatoes...it is likely Early Blight.
It's fine to can tomatoes from plants with early blight.
~Martin
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Aug 3, 2011 17:03:50 GMT -4
If you're not seeing lesions on fruits and stems early on and it hasn't affected your potatoes almost immediately after you noticed it on your tomatoes...it is likely Early Blight. It's fine to can tomatoes from plants with early blight. ~Martin I trust ya Martin, But I am damn sure someone at the other site or even the magazine said not to can blighted tomatoes...I'm confused
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