the season downunder

[tessa]

grubbo...when the tomatoes die off in the autumn...pop a spud in their container, dutch cream of course. summer/winter rotation. best of all worlds.

[Wi-sunflower]

While Sweet Dumpling is a good squash, give Festival a try if you can get it there. It's a hybrid in the same family as Sweet Dumpling but larger, more colorful, and quite early.

I've been growing them for several years and they are now one of my most popular at the farmers markets here.

[Grub]

Thanks for the tips re spuds and squash.

[tessa]

trouble overnight:



egads.

[Patrina_Pepperina]

Arrrrggghhhhh, healthy one day, then attacked by something the next!

*sigh*

PP

[Grub]

No idea but, if I had to guess, it looks like late blight.

[tessa]

is there anything i can do for blight? ride it out? or will it take hostages and lives?
how can it be late blight...when i'm only having my second tomato variety start to blush?

here comes canabec super:


gosh...gotta love those canadian tomatoes, hey?
without 'em...i'd still be eating store-bought.

[Zana]

Tessa,
I was beginning to notice the Canadian theme. I guess allot of ours are "early" because of our "shorter" growing season. Haven't grown any of the Canabec ones, let me know how they end up tasting, eh?...LOL
Zana

[stratcat1]

Hi, Tessa.

In addition to disposing of the diseased leaves away from the garden, I feed my problem plants more than the others. Hopefully, they outgrow the affliction.

Good luck.

john

[tessa]

thanks stratcat. i think that's your strategy on the early blight as well, yes? is there a difference?...or is blight blight?

zana...i grew canabec last year as well. it was a great producer...but not a great taster. better than store bought...but that's about all that could be said for it tastewise. the reason i am re-growing it...is because last year when russett mites took all of my tomatoes...the only one to survive was canabec, which piled them on.
so.
they are my doomsday tomato. LOL.

canadian theme? what canadian them? i haven't even shown you my manitobas, my scotias, or my prairie fire yet!

[Zana]

Tessa,
We canucks are a hardy lot. I guess that means our tomatoes are too. LOL
Zana

[tessa]

don't i know it?
i *is* a canuck!

[stratcat1]

Tessa-Your welcome.

Yes, that's my strategy for blighted plants. Clean them up and keep them well-fed so they can get healthy enough to outgrow the disease.

Looked up info on blights and they are both caused by fungus with Late Blight causing white, moldy growth near the margins of the diseased area. Did you see any of that?

I've never sprayed with a fungicide to control disease nor do I recommend it. Has anyone tried it and had good luck?

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

john t

[orflo]

This is definitely NOT late blight...I've seen to much of that disease to be mistaken, (by the way, late blight can occur very early, but that's an other story...)

[tessa]

okay...thanks team.
i will step up feedings of said inflicted plant.
i am already spraying with sulphur, which is organic. it seems to be doing the trick on them...and *bonus*...it's a fungicide!