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Subject: 12/10: Growing Potatoes & Tomatoes in a Disease-Plagued World
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:58:29 -0500
Growing Potatoes & Tomatoes in a Disease-Plagued World
Friday, December 10, 10:00am-12:30pm at Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca
NY Learn about major diseases of potatoes and tomatoes and how to
manage them using the latest disease resistant varieties and other
management practices. Learn how to distinguish late blight from
early blight on these two crops, and bring in your own tubers in for help
diagnosing problems. Workshop will be led by Cornell plant
pathologists Tom Zitter and Keith Perry, Michael Glos of Cornell's
organic plant breeding program, and Elizabeth Dyck of NOFA-NY. Enjoy
snacks made from potatoes, tomatoes, and cover crops This workshop is
sponsored by the Northeast Organic/Sustainable Potato project (NOSP) and
is FREE and open to the public. For additional information please
contact Michael Glos at mag22 AT cornell.edu or (607) 227-7793.
12/10: Growing Potatoes & Tomatoes in a Disease-Plagued World,
Sandra Repp, 11/24/2010