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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

On Jul 26, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Road's End Farm wrote:

On Jul 26, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Ginda Fisher wrote:

The tomatoes look very sad, and are well behind where they ought to  
be.  They also sem to have more problems with dying leaves than  
normal.  I thought that was virus, but maybe it's a little of this and  
a little of that, and some of that is wilt.

Ginda, you do know to watch out for late blight, right? It's early this year, as a lot of the big box stores sold infected transplants all over the Northeast; and weather, in many areas, has been favorable to disease development.

Your county extension agent should be able to identify the problem for you.

Some good info and links from the site below (tailored to NY state, but most of it generally useful info):

http://nofany.org/hottopics/lateblight2009.htm


--Rivka

Thanks.  I'd heard about it vaguely, but wasn't really aware of it.  But my symptoms look nothing like the photos there, and I did't buy any plants from "big box" stores (although I suppose my local garden shop might have), so that's probably not it.  Also, one of the tomoatoes is MUCH more affected than the three right next to it, and it's the one with the least resistence to "standard viruses" so I really think it's mostly the usual endemic tomato viruses, perhaps aided by the lack of vigor the tomatoes have in this weather.

Ginda