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Re: [Market-farming] Tomato stems rotting below soil line
- 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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[Market-farming] boron,
Lloyd Blackwell, 05/09/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] boron, Etienne Goyer, 05/09/2012
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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[Market-farming] Boron,
Lloyd Blackwell, 05/09/2012
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[Market-farming] Tomato stems rotting below soil line,
Marlin & Christine Burkholder, 05/10/2012
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[Market-farming] Tomato stems rotting below soil line,
Tom & Melanie, 05/10/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Tomato stems rotting below soil line, John Ehrlich, 05/10/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Tomato stems rotting below soil line, Barking Cat Farm, 05/14/2012
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[Market-farming] Tomato stems rotting below soil line,
Tom & Melanie, 05/10/2012
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[Market-farming] Tomato stems rotting below soil line,
Marlin & Christine Burkholder, 05/10/2012
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