Maybe a stupid question but I have to ask...

[carolyn137]

Carolyn posted:

But back to the original issue of TMV and I still maintain that these days CMV is by far more prevalent than is TMV.

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I tried Morgan.

And now I see Lee is more interested in discussing CMV as well.

There's always something to learn, though.

[tomatoguy]

I am not disputing any of the information or scientific studies mentioned here. All I have to go on is personal experience. I am a smoker who has been growing tomatoes for 39 years. I have never seen TMV on any of my plants. The diseases I have to deal with in my location are usually: Early Blight and Bacterial Speck. I have seen others, such as Verticillium which has taken out two plants this year. I sometimes see Southern Bacterial Wilt or Septoria. It is interesting to me how the plant diseases seem to change over the years. When I first started growing, Late Blight was a problem here. I never saw Bacterial Speck until about 6 years ago. Now it is common here. Who knows what we will have to deal with next. I count myself as lucky to live in an area with long hot summers and not too much rain. As long as I avoid splashback and sprinklers, I don't usually see to many disease problems. I tried spraying; first with Copper, then Daconil but gave up both a couple of years ago as I didn't see them making a significant difference.

mater

[tlcmd]

Maybe we ought to start a new discussion on CMV rather than run this thread ad infinitum. I'd also like to see one on companion planting.

Thanks for the CV Carolyn. Quite impressive. My gardening started with my dad's Victory garden in WWII. He was born and raised on a farm and became a physician to escape that. Then ended up with his VG and we all just kept it up after WWII was over. Tha's where I learned that you just can't standing in the garden with a tin salt shaker with a handle and a tomato you just pulled!!

[carolyn137]

Maybe we ought to start a new discussion on CMV rather than run this thread ad infinitum. I'd also like to see one on companion planting.


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If you do a general search at the top of the page I know you'll find many threads about both CMV and companion planting.

But count me out when it comes to companion planting. Been there, done that years ago and don't want to go there again with all the uncontrolled data and varying data, etc.

Just a suggestion on looking for threads already here in a search and bringing them up again if you have comments you'd like to add. But of course you always have the option of starting your own thread on companion planting if you wish.

If Lee wants to start another thread about CMV, since he brought it up in his post, he can do that . Or Lee, you can resurrect one of the several threads already here on CMV; your choice.

[Lee]

I'd rather do it in the CMV sticky thread I started.... but only if there's interest.

Lee