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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] tomato blight
  • Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:41:19 -0500

More good suggestions! If you make succession plantings, they should be 3-4
weeks apart. There may be some mixing of harvest but generally the earlier
will be waning while the later will be waxing. the spread should be somewhat
determined by the chosen varieties. Some last longer than others.

We've also seen heirlooms do well where we use black plastic mulch and drip
irrigation. While we still see some blight, it's not nearly as severe and it
generally stays low on the plant, unless a rainy period pushes it up the
plant. But the mulch tends to prevent splashing of soil and pathogens, while
the drip means vigorous plants with dry leaves most of the time. I think
straw mulch would probably have a similar effect.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist - Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html

>On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:30:39 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>And, along with the harvesting, tying tomatoes up also spreads disease.
We
>>have found that tomatoes in cages last a LOT longer than tomatoes in
Florida
>>weave. It still takes 2 or 3 plantings for us to have tomatoes until
frost
>>(typically mid-late October) in our hot, humid conditions.
>
>I have not made succession plantings of tomatoes (nor is our
>season as long as yours), but I'm going to do it next year.
>It's certainly worth a try. Thanks.
>
>Pat
>-- northern Pennsylvania
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>supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
>live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry
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