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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Market-farming Digest, Vol 17, Issue 1
  • Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:27:23 -0500

Later tomato plantings can sometimes avoid the wet conditions that lead to
blight long enough to to set and ripen a crop long after earlier plantings
have already succumbed to the disease. You can also use mulches, organic or
plastic, to reduce splashing of soil particles that can carry the disease
onto the plant. The disease inevitably shows up but you can delay it long
enough to keep producing and remain profitable.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center

> I did hear on person say that they are doing successive
>plantings of their tomatoes so we do have plants that will go in at a later
>time. However, I wonder if this plan would actually even work since the
>disease is in the soil.
> --Gary
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