Market Farming

[Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:33:51 -0500, you wrote:


>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.
>

This sounds like septoria leaf spot or one of the blights to me.  Ours have
something or other too.  I'm not sure that I could tell the difference
between septoria leaf spot and early blight.

Here are some photos and descriptions:

http://tinyurl.com/k9se4

http://tinyurl.com/j6crb

http://s142412519.onlinehome.us/uw/pdfs/A2606.PDF

Pat
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