Southern Blight

[Timmah!]

My first casualty of the season is one of the 10 Brandywine in the raised bed. It was one of the corner plants. Initially, it became gradually more yellow over the past few days. Then yesterday evening I noticed the growing tips of the branches drooping. Pulling back the pine chip mulch from around the plant revealed the telltale white ring of mycelium around the stem of the plant & extending about 1 1/2" out from the stem.
Upon removing the plant, the mycelium had progressed no more than 1/2" in the soil.
So after chopping up the & bagging the plant, along with a good portion of the soil, I moved the mulch back from the stems of the remaining plants to prevent further contact & transmission of the disease; then drenched the soil of the plants & the hole with 1/2 gallon of Mycogrow each. Hopefully this will prevent the spread to the remaining 9 plants in the bed.

[discrepancy]

Ugh, that's awful. Catching it relatively early is a good thing, though, right?

[Qweniden]

Sorry to hear

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[puzzley]

Sorry, Timmah. Hope nobody else gets sick...

[ubergoober]

Good luck! Hopefully you caught it early enough!