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2020 Victory Gardens
WhistlingBadger:
--- Quote from: Pat B on August 24, 2020, 08:44:07 pm ---When we get blight up here it looks like frost hit the plants overnight. One year we saw it hit and removed all the tomatoes, red, green and in between. A few days later they all had started rotting, even the green one.
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Sounds awful. I get fire blight on my plums some years, but never on my tomatoes. I think they simply don't survive long enough around here for any diseases to take hold.
HH~:
Very common in humid climates. I have none this year. Been wet but always had time to dry overnite before next rain.
Late blight generally will starts after crop is coming in on plants. So it does not affect yield to much. Early blight will travel on the wind in damp early summer/late spring and can kill every plant in the county. I have seen this in 2010 here in this area.
Shawn~
Marc St Louis:
The only problem we usually have with tomatoes is blossom end rot but so far it's not much of a problem this year. We've had a good crop of pole beans, tomatoes are just starting to ripen, a few parsnips and rutabaga. I trellised the squash this year and it works well. There's lots of hanging spaghetti squash, already eaten one of those, and a few butternut. It was a slow start with the cold snap and frost we had early on
Eric Krewson:
An Anasazi bean update, here is the total output from a 16' row of Anasazi beans, 3 pints. I picked a couple of small meals from the patch and a handful of dried beans. I had tons of foliage but few beans, the beans were small and very stringy.
The first picture is the beans at their peak, the plants have since gone down hill, dried up and been removed.
mullet:
I don't think I'll be planting those, Eric.
I gave up on tomatoes this year. We have had so much rain they just didn't have a chance between blight, powdery mildew and splitting. The good thing is the mushrooms I planted last week like it. They are popping up this morning.
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