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  • From: sora AT coldreams.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomato problem (Willie McKemie)
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:49:23 -0700 (PDT)

>Sounds like blight to me too. Although nothing is truely effective we've
found lime/sulfur to help. I've also heard of folk using baking soda.
I've found the best is to rotate carefully and stay away from
non-resistant strains.
>
> Bad news.
>
> Sound like Early Blight. Lower leaves develop expanding rings which
> eventually kill the leaves and it works it's way up from bottom to top.
> VERY common in our area; it eventually gets about all of my tomatoes
> every year. I have not found Bravo or copper to be effective. It
> seems to appear even in virgin ground plantings. That's a major
> reason why early determinate varieties are so popular in this area; the
> early varieties can produce a crop before the Early Blight gets them.
>
> If we could deal with the Early Blight and spider mites, tomatoes would
> be a LOT cheaper.
>




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