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  • From: "Marlin & Christine Burkholder" <burkholders AT glenecofarm.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Tomato stems rotting below soil line
  • Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:12:00 -0400


What would cause the stem on a tomato transplant put into the ground two
weeks ago to suddenly rot off about an inch below the soil line? Looks like
some sort of bacterial rot similar to what I experienced once years ago when
I transplanted tomatoes into recently plowed down clover cover crop. That
time I figured that bacterial decomposition of the plowed under clover also
attacked the roots of the tomatoes. The ground where I am having the
problem this year was plowed and prepped last fall and the rows mulched with
plastic.








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