| 7/4/2009 8:50:36 PM |
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alicekathleen
Sacramento, CA
age: 64
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Well, I had a funny feeling about those tomatoes. They have yellow leaves at the bottom and just do not look right
to me. I think it is blight... had it a couple years ago, lost every plant. I could be way off, but I think that buying
things at Home Depot, where they pot in manure, is risky, and also never sure in our climate about watering. We
had a cool May and June, and then it suddenly went way over 100. If anyone has fought blight and won, I would
love to hear about it. PS No spraying, please, I don't wish to use them.
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| 7/4/2009 9:45:49 PM |
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bigheartedmannc
Danbury, NC
age: 31
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alice i know you really don't like spraying but in my experience if you don't start spraying right away you will lose them if it's blight. 1 of the best things to combat blight is copper-hydroxide. I use a chemical called Kocide DF. They make a version of this chemical that i believe is all natural, I think its called Kocide 2000 but i'm not 100% sure on that number. Copper is a naturally occuring mineral that is essential in the health of tomatoes or any of the nightshade family. Early blight can be controlled with use of a copper spray. Other than that I am afraid i cannot help you!
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| 7/5/2009 11:55:16 AM |
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alicekathleen
Sacramento, CA
age: 64
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Thanks, I had read about the copper, guess it's time to either spray or pull them up! Hate that blight.
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| 7/5/2009 7:51:48 PM |
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sierratoo
Grande Prairie, AB
age: 55
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I have only grown tomatoes for 2 years now and plant marigolds amongst them.
Marigolds actually go pretty much everywhere.
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| 7/6/2009 5:23:26 AM |
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alicekathleen
Sacramento, CA
age: 64
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Do you feel they have an effect on blight prevention?
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| 7/6/2009 7:05:44 PM |
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sierratoo
Grande Prairie, AB
age: 55
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Well, the book says that marigolds keep the bugs away...
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| 7/6/2009 7:27:19 PM |
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sierratoo
Grande Prairie, AB
age: 55
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"tomatoes prefer to grown in the same place each year unless you have a disease problem... plant in new area. Tomatoes are heavy feeders, give ample quantities of compost or decomposed manure. Compatible with chives, onion, parsley, marigold, nasturtium, carrot. Garlic planted between tomato plants (seem to) protect them from red spider mites."
That is paraphrased from the book "Carrots Love Tomatoes"
If you smoke (anything - I have read your past posts!) wash your hands because the stuff in tobacco does something bad to the tomatoes- diseases r transmitted.
You also do not need all those branches. Just the ones near where the blossoms/fruit are so cut away the other branches. I have been told just 3 branches - the 3 closest to the fruit branch...
But hey, what do I know? I have just been doing this a couple of years and I go on a lot of what my customers have been telling me - worked part-time in a garden centre last year and a bit of this year.
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| 7/6/2009 10:07:38 PM |
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bigheartedmannc
Danbury, NC
age: 31
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Marigolds only help with bugs and moles(which don't really bother mater's to bad)
Sierra you are correct about the smoking thing. Tobacco and tomatoes and potatoes too are all part of the nightshade family. Anytime you move from either of these plants to the other you need to wash your hands. I know a friend of mine a few years ago who lost 1 whole greenhouse worth of tobacco plants to early blight after he pulled a blighted tomatoe plant out of his tomato greenhouse and then walked into the tobacco greenhouse and started messing with the plants in there.
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| 7/7/2009 5:02:27 AM |
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alicekathleen
Sacramento, CA
age: 64
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My man friend smokes a pipe, and he is always fussing with them. We may have figured it out!
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| 7/7/2009 6:24:19 AM |
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bigheartedmannc
Danbury, NC
age: 31
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If so the disease may be already set in so your choices are limited to spraying for control, or starting over! Me personally i would try the kocide and see if it will get the disease under control before i went as drastic as starting over lol. Either way try to keep the pipe out of the tomato patch or keep some milk handy to rinse his hands after he touches the pipe.
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| 7/8/2009 10:05:16 AM |
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alicekathleen
Sacramento, CA
age: 64
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Live and learn. Still dreaming of those BLT"S with home grown tomatoes!
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| 7/16/2009 3:08:43 PM |
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sun_shine51
West Monroe, LA
age: 58
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I have only grown tomatoes for 2 years now and plant marigolds amongst them.
Marigolds actually go pretty much everywhere.
I do that too! Works......
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| 7/17/2009 6:05:02 PM |
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sierratoo
Grande Prairie, AB
age: 55
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So Alice...
What's the verdict? Did you chop away the diseased branches?
Is the rest of the tomato plant going to make it to the BLT stage?
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