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  • From: Sam White <cedarrockcsa AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomato problem
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:28:43 -0700 (PDT)

For powdery mildew, blackspot, and late blight, I use
a preventative mixture of 2 tsps of baking soda per
gallon of water. I wonder if it works for early
blight?

See: http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/bakingsoda.html

Sam

--- Barb Miller <barbmill2 AT verizon.net> wrote:

> I've had blight problems here too. Last year I got
> lazy and didn't cage my tomato plants and had
> tomatoes up until frost - no blight (for once).
> This year I decided to experiment so I'm not using
> anything previously used for growing
> tomatoes..bought t-posts and baling sisal and am
> using the Florida weave system to restrain the
> plants. If these plants survive up until frost I'll
> be convinced that the blight is carried on stakes or
> cages used previously for growing tomatoes. I
> always use black plastic and rotate my plants
> through a series of raised beds.
>
> Barb Miller
> Tioga County, PA
> *******************
> The symptoms are typical - the leaves wither and
> turn yellow-y brown,
> starting at the bottom of the plant and working up.
> The fruits are
> unharmed, but no new blossoms are appearing. Our
> weather is staying in
> the low 90's, and they will set fruit in fairly warm
> weather, so "no
> blooms" worries me too.
>
> We are sustainable, and the tomato trellises are one
> fence away from the
> chicken yard. Any suggestions on a sustainable
> solution that would stop,
> or at least slow down the disease progression?
>
> Thanks,
> Juanita Garcia
> Leander TX (Zone 8)
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