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  • From: Barking Cat Farm <barkingcatfarm AT mindspring.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomato stems rotting below soil line
  • Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 15:14:48 -0500


It does sound like damping off, a soil borne pathogen. Rootshield &/or
Actinovate may help. They are expensive but are better than losing the crop.

Kim
NE Texas


On May 10, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Marlin & Christine Burkholder wrote:

>
> 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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