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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Plant disease
  • Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:09:42 -0600


Ounce of prevention -- make sure your soil drains well, never gets
waterlogged, and avoid handling plants when they're wet from rain or dew.
Don't water from overhead. Standard advice.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz


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On 7/6/2009 at 12:51 AM Pete Vukovich wrote:

>I think once you get botrytis its probably not going to make it (the gray
>stemrot in your tomatos). I've never seen the stuff spread myself, but
>once one plant shows it its time to make sure they all get dryer by
>evening. This particular fungus occurs naturally, but seems to get more
>active when you have a cool evening and the plants go to bed too wet.
>
>There are soil ammendments like soil guard which can help with both it and
>fusarium, and verticillium but they are prophalactics not cures. With some
>plants I had some success fending off botrytis and verticillium by adding
>some ground seashell mix to the soil (the extra calcium seems to inhibit
>fungal growth) - but once either got too far it not much you could do. For
>mildew, if your weather is cool we did have a lot of luck spraying
>elemental sulphur, but if you have really hot days I'd be wary of it
>because it can stress the plants by upsetting potassium balance in the
>leaves.
>
>Liz is probably right though, about just removing them, me I find it
>harder to give up them up since I don't grow as many.
>
>--- On Sun, 7/5/09, Liz <liz@allslash.org> wrote:
>






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