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12/10: Growing Potatoes & Tomatoes in a Disease-Plagued World

From: Sandra Repp <sjr37 AT cornell.edu>
To: sustainable_tompkins-l AT list.cornell.edu, nwaeg-l AT cornell.edu, tc-HSC-L AT cornell.edu, fingerlakespermaculture AT lists.ibiblio.org, "cce-TompkinsStaff-L AT cornell.edu" <CCE-TompkinsStaff-L AT cornell.edu>
Cc: mag22 AT cornell.edu
Subject: 12/10: Growing Potatoes & Tomatoes in a Disease-Plagued World
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:58:29 -0500

Growing Potatoes & Tomatoes in a Disease-Plagued World
Friday, December 10, 10:00am-12:30pm
at Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca NY
Learn about major diseases of potatoes and tomatoes and how to manage them using the latest disease resistant varieties and other management practices. Learn how to distinguish late blight from early blight on these two crops, and bring in your own tubers in for help diagnosing problems. Workshop will be led by Cornell plant pathologists Tom Zitter and Keith Perry, Michael Glos of Cornell's organic plant breeding program, and Elizabeth Dyck of NOFA-NY. Enjoy snacks made from potatoes, tomatoes, and cover crops This workshop is sponsored by the Northeast Organic/Sustainable Potato project (NOSP) and is FREE and open to the public. For additional information please contact Michael Glos at mag22 AT cornell.edu or (607) 227-7793.

12/10: Growing Potatoes & Tomatoes in a Disease-Plagued World, Sandra Repp, 11/24/2010