Late Blight coming our way?

[Elliot]

Originally Posted by Alberta

Last evening I really looked over all my tomato plants with a fine toothed comb so to speak...no sign of the dreaded LB.

Alberta

That is great. i am hearing that farmers out East are seeing it

[Alberta]

Elliot, I'm located "out East" but so far so good, I'm not out as far as the others that are showing it, I'm just praying it doesn't hit here. I dealt with it a few years back and its truly horrible, everything had to be thrown away, not even composted. keep your fingers crossed,

Alberta

[raindrops27]

Well, I did a bit of research, and came up with this.

I see, something in the Hampton'

http://uspest.org/risk/tom_pot_map

Anyhow,
I am keeping an optimistic outlook, about this growing season, and years to come.

[rsg2001]

We belong to a CSA whose farmer has an organic farm in Riverhead, New York (Long Island, but not as far out as the Hamptons). She reported that with the hot days and streak of no rain, she has not seen LB though doing some preventive spraying with a copper spray and daily careful examinations of the tomato crop. She reported that there are a couple of conventional farmers in the area that have seen a little LB.

[Alberta]

thanks for the map raindrops, so far so good, but this heat today is something else, LOL

[raindrops27]

Alberta, I was out there at 7 a.m. Even, in the shade, the humidity was oppressive. I am so very thankful to God, for air conditioning.

[kath]

Originally Posted by raindrops27

Alberta, I was out there at 7 a.m. Even, in the shade, the humidity was oppressive. I am so very thankful to God, for air conditioning.

My DH and I have been saying that multiple times each day for almost a week.

[Alberta]

LOL, in regard to the A/C I only have it in the bedrooms, this computer is not in any of the bedrooms, so I've been a little lax in reading replies here and else where. My God its HOT, HOT, HOT.

[bcday]

http://www.uvm.edu/extension/?Page=n...gory=extension
Late Blight confirmed August 3 on tomato foliage in a home garden in Jericho (Chittenden County), VT.
That's some distance north of you Carolyn but the weather is starting to get cooler now and we're getting some rain too.
I haven't seen LB locally yet this year.

[Elliot]

We are seeing it on some plants on LOng Island

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by bcday

http://www.uvm.edu/extension/?Page=n...gory=extension
Late Blight confirmed August 3 on tomato foliage in a home garden in Jericho (Chittenden County), VT.
That's some distance north of you Carolyn but the weather is starting to get cooler now and we're getting some rain too.
I haven't seen LB locally yet this year.

Thanks for the update b'c I haven't been to the Cornell site lately and there's been nothing in the local papers.

The prevailing winds here are from the W and Vt to my east so fingers crossed.

I see some stuff I don't like out there on the tomato plants, and from a distaince it doesn't look like LB but Freda has had little time to spend here and when I ask her to out and bring me some leaves she just says I worry too much, and I do.

But my plants are still looking pathetic. I think what I'm seeing out there with the deaths of two plants is due too much rain and the containers not draining well. The other night we had torrential downpours here and where Freda lives which isn't that far from me, she got no rain at all.

[Jeannine Anne]

Carolyn may I ask, is there anything you would suggest for prevention/treatment of late blight which is on our gardens but not on my stuff yet. We are not allowed to use anything that is not organic.

XX Jeannine

[gill_s]

Here in the UK we do not have access to Daconil(unless someone can tell me of a souce).
We have been able to use Mancozeb in a fungicide called Dithane. I am not sure but I think that may now have been withdrawn. I have enough to last a while longer!
Where I live LB is almost inevitable. I did see very early signs on 2 plants. We sprayed immediately and so far it seems to have checked it. I hate spraying but it is a case of spraying or not growing tomatoes outside.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Jeannine Anne

Carolyn may I ask, is there anything you would suggest for prevention/treatment of late blight which is on our gardens but not on my stuff yet. We are not allowed to use anything that is not organic.

XX Jeannine

There's not much that's organic that is very effective. Here's a link to the Cornell site where productrs are suggested as the best to use for a particular tomato disease. The site is for organic products.

And you'll see that all they suggest is a copper contining product. Look on the left hand sidean you'll see some other organic products listed that you'll recognize and not one of them is felt to be effective in helping to prevent LB.

http://web.pppmb.cals.cornell.edu/re...olanaceous.php

Just click on Late Blight on the page I linked to.

[Jeannine Anne]

Than you Carolyn.. given that it is not very effective and my plants have not yet had any moisture on the leaves am I better to take my chances then wet the leaves with a copper spray..

XX Jeannine