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Tomato late blight.
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Posted by Baffled Coromandel (My Page) on Tue, Jan 27, 04 at 18:14
| This seasons plantings have been decimated after promising a bumper crop. Any advice on what actions to take now for next season please??? |
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RE: Tomato late blight.
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I think the weather was a total washout this year.
Grow your tomato in a different patch, all you can do is lime the soil and heaps of compost to get ready and hope you don't get to much rain next season.
Heather |
RE: Tomato late blight.
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| Well we didn't get much rain in the last growing season - in fact I had to water at least every other day - high humidity tho'. In preparing the soil I used home made compost which included the remains of green potato shoots and I think these may have caused the problem - can late blight spores live on composted shoots?? The crop location is rotated on a 3-4 year cycle. I had already removed some large toms for green-tom-jam and the remainder had just started to colour up when disaster struck. Ah well, here's hoping for this years' growing season. Thanks for your response Heather Kind regards Valerie |
RE: Tomato late blight.
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| we had it here last year in the USA, never plant them in that spot again,also I used a Fungicide, just in case,,,Mike |
RE: Tomato late blight.
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| This season I can report a good crop after removing all traces of potato peel, shoots etc..., disinfecting soil using Jeyes Fluid and introducing better vegetation disposal over the winter months. Thanks to all who helped - am very glad to be back in TOMland Does anyone know of a source of Jeyes Fluid (not Jeyes Disinfectant) in NZ please?? |
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