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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 429261
7/5/2009 2:49 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
I always grow my plants from seeds ever since I bought some cucumber plants at Wallmart and it spread some kind of fungus. I checked online and they said the fungus could live in the soil for years and the best thing to do was not grow cucumbers.
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| The Chef
User ID: 671624
7/5/2009 2:50 PM
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Here is the last year without a summer and yes parts of the country are hot as hell this is a regional event. It should be noted that we have had several large volcanic eruptions in the northern hemisphere this year (Russia and US, Alaska)While these volcanoes are smaller than the ones in 1816 the connection to the weather shouldn't be overlooked.
he Year Without a Summer (also known as the Poverty Year, Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death, and the Year There Was No Summer) was 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities destroyed crops in Northern Europe, the American Northeast and eastern Canada.[1][2] Historian John D. Post has called this "the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world".[3]
Most consider the climate anomaly to have been caused by a combination of a historic low in solar activity and a volcanic winter event; the latter caused by a succession of major volcanic eruptions capped off by the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815, the largest known eruption in over 1,600 years.
The unusual climatic aberrations of 1816 had the greatest effect on the American northeast, New England, the Canadian Maritimes, Newfoundland, and Northern Europe. Typically, the late spring and summer of the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada are relatively stable: temperatures (average of both day and night) average about 68–77 °F (20–25 °C), and rarely fall below 41 °F (5 °C). Summer snow is an extreme rarity, though May flurries sometimes occur.
In May 1816,[4] however, frost killed off most of the crops that had been planted, and in June two large snowstorms in eastern Canada and New England resulted in many human deaths. Nearly a foot (30 cm) of snow was observed in Quebec City in early June, with consequent additional loss of crops—most summer growing plants have cell walls which rupture in a mild frost, let alone a snowstorm coating the soils. The result was regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality—in short, famine.
In July and August, lake and river ice were observed as far south as Pennsylvania. Rapid, dramatic temperature swings were common, with temperatures sometimes reverting from normal or above-normal summer temperatures as high as 95 °F (35 °C) to near-freezing within hours. Even though farmers south of New England did succeed in bringing some crops to maturity, maize and other grain prices rose dramatically. Oats, for example, rose from 12¢ a bushel ($3.40/m³) the previous year to 92¢ a bushel ($26/m³)—nearly eight times as much—and oats are a necessary staple for an economy dependent upon horses for primary transportation. Those areas suffering local crop failures then had to deal with the lack of roads in the early 19th century, preventing any easy importation of bulky food stuffs.
In China, the cold weather killed trees, rice crops and even water buffalo, especially in northern China. Floods destroyed many remaining crops. Mount Tambora’s eruption disrupted China’s monsoon season, resulting in overwhelming floods in the Yangtze Valley in 1816. In India the delayed summer monsoon caused late torrential rains that aggravated the spread of cholera from a region near the River Ganges in Bengal to as far as Moscow.[5]
In the ensuing bitter winter of 1817, when the thermometer dropped to -26°F (-32 °C), the waters of New York's Upper Bay froze so hard that horse-drawn sleighs were driven across Buttermilk Channel from Brooklyn to Governors Island.[6]
The effects were widespread and lasted beyond the winter. In eastern Switzerland, the summers of 1816 and 1817 were so cool that an ice dam formed below a tongue of the Giétroz glacier high in the Val de Bagnes; in spite of the efforts of the engineer Ignaz Venetz to drain the growing lake, the ice dam collapsed catastrophically in June 1818.[7]
[edit] Causes
It is now generally thought that the aberrations occurred because of the 1815 (April 5–15) volcanic eruptions of Mount Tambora[8][9] on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia (then part of the Dutch East Indies), the world's largest eruption in about 1,600 years with a Volcanic Explosivity Index ranking of 7, a super-colossal event that ejected immense amounts of volcanic dust into the upper atmosphere. (Lake Taupo's Hatepe eruption of c. 180 AD was probably of similar size, see Supervolcano.) The fact that the 1815 eruptions occurred during the middle of the Dalton Minimum (a period of unusually low solar activity) is also significant.
Other large volcanic eruptions (with VEI at least 4) during the same time frame are:
* 1812, La Soufrière on Saint Vincent in the Caribbean
* 1812, Awu on Sangihe Islands, Indonesia
* 1813, Suwanose-Jima on Ryukyu Islands, Japan
* 1814, Mayon in the Philippines
These other eruptions had already built up a substantial amount of atmospheric dust. As is common following a massive volcanic eruption, temperatures fell worldwide because less sunlight passed through the atmosphere.
[edit] Effects
As a consequence of the series of volcanic eruptions, crops in the above cited areas had been poor for several years; the final blow came in 1815 with the eruption of Tambora. In America, many historians cite the "Year Without a Summer" as a primary motivation for the western movement and rapid settlement of what is now western and central New York and the American Midwest. Many New Englanders were wiped out by the year, and tens of thousands struck out for the richer soil and better growing conditions of the Upper Midwest (then the Northwest Territory).
Europe, still recuperating from the Napoleonic Wars, suffered from food shortages. Food riots broke out in Britain and France and grain warehouses were looted. The violence was worst in landlocked Switzerland, where famine caused the government to declare a national emergency. Huge storms, abnormal rainfall with floodings of the major rivers of Europe (including the Rhine) are attributed to the event, as was the frost setting in during August 1816. A BBC documentary using figures compiled in Switzerland estimated that fatality rates in 1816 were twice that of average years, giving an approximate European fatality total of 200,000 deaths.
The eruption of Tambora also caused Hungary to experience brown snow. Italy experienced something similar, with red snow falling throughout the year. The cause of this is believed to have been volcanic ash in the atmosphere.
In China, unusually low temperatures in summer and fall devastated rice production in Yunnan province in the southwest, resulting in widespread famine. Fort Shuangcheng, now in Heilongjiang province, reported fields disrupted by frost and conscripts deserting as a result. Summer snowfall was reported in various locations in Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, both in the south of the country. In Taiwan, which has a tropical climate, snow was reported in Hsinchu and Miaoli, while frost was reported in Changhua.
High levels of ash in the atmosphere led to unusually spectacular sunsets during this period, a feature celebrated in the paintings of J. M. W. Turner. It has been theorised that it was this that gave rise to the yellow tinge that is predominant in his paintings such as Chichester Canal circa 1828. A similar phenomenon was observed after the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, and on the West Coast of the United States following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.
The lack of oats to feed horses may have inspired the German inventor Karl Drais to research new ways of horseless transportation, which led to the invention of the Draisine or velocipede. This was the ancestor of the modern bicycle and a step towards mechanized personal transport.[11]
The crop failures of the “Year without Summer” forced the family of Joseph Smith to move from Sharon, Vermont to Palmyra, New York, precipitating a series of events culminating in the publication of the Book of Mormon and the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[12]
In July 1816 "incessant rainfall" during that "wet, ungenial summer" forced Mary Shelley, John William Polidori and their friends to stay indoors for much of their Swiss holiday. They decided to have a contest, seeing who could write the scariest story, leading Shelley to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Polidori to write The Vampyre.[13]
The Year without a Summer also inspired Lord Byron to write his 1816 poem Darkness.
The chemist Justus von Liebig, who had experienced the famine as a child in Darmstadt, later studied the nutrition of plants and introduced mineral fertilizers.
[link to en.wikipedia.org] |
| ^TrInItY^  
Forum Administrator
7/5/2009 2:50 PM
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how many volcanoes erupted last fall/winter?
There's a clue.
Trinity....might be too late this year, but get those tomatoes pruned back some and get some garlic oil sprayed on them. Treat the soil with Epsom Salt water. Get rid of all the ripe tomatoes (even on the ground)....keep them away from the main plant(s).
Are your tomato leaves okay or are they yellow?
If it's really severe, put black landscape paper around the plants on the ground so any part of the vine touching the ground doesn't contaminate.
You MIGHT be able to save em....it's early enough, but it'll take 3-4 weeks for them to come back if they're gonna. Quoting: OneAngryMom
thanks for the tips
yea they are yellow
they look like shit
it's also spreading to my potatoes now it looks like...
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Of the few who listen, fewer still will understand,
Understanding does not mean believe,
Of the handful who believe, most may not know what to do,
Those who even know, how many will actually do ?
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| bubba
User ID: 704316
7/5/2009 2:54 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
Diversity in the plant kingdom is a essential,and extends into all facets of life.Thats what DNA is all about.But we've been led astray in our thinking.Corporate farms,One Monsanto GMO protoplant,One Depo,One-Mart,One operating system,One world order,then one fucking virus.You reap what you sow. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 716635
7/5/2009 2:57 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
[link to www.hort.cornell.edu]
A site I found with pictures.... I'm wondering if it can come from eggplant as I bought one and it's looking draggy and I thought it was water. Gave it more and it's doing ok but the tomatoes next to it have it now.... Dam walmart....
bought one vegi plant from them and this is what I get.... Ha the tomatoes in my greenhouse are doing great so I'm wondering if it's chemtrails too.... that is exactly what zuchini does, gets spots and rots. |
| Frightning White
User ID: 716251
7/5/2009 3:02 PM
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This sounds like a good excuse to pass the:
Martial Law & Food Control In One Insane Bill Act - HR 2749
The worst bill yet,,,
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| Phennommennonn
The Queen Of Mean
User ID: 581503
7/5/2009 3:03 PM
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thanks for the post luke tho my garden is jungle habitat aside from beetle bullshit alls ok here so far.
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Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
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| S. who C.
User ID: 718818
7/5/2009 3:07 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
I`ve noticed a lot of fungus around trees as well....
and then the fungus kills the tree....
I know it has something to do with chemtrails....
cause chemtrails contain fungus spores....
it most likely is part of the chemtrail agenda....
kill all plants that are not gmo.... Quoting: mr...bojangles
Probably not intentionally caused, that would be really unwise/selfdeceptive/shorminded. However, indeed there had been plenty of fungus on trees last two years in many places... it is likely related with climate changes and some... other issues. Pollution on the food chains has also played its part, for instance: large populations of bats had contracted fungal diseases and are inmunodepressed (probably for eating toxic chemical resistant insects now eating the modified plants, among other things)... bees had got a harsh time because of new toxics made up by those plants too. We know quite little about the complicated and intricated natural cycles... we should take much more care of what we do! Genetics are not a game, neither biogeochemical processes.
Best hopes for a better world ; )
A Scientist who Cares |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 276543
7/5/2009 3:10 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
Got all of mine from HD--Bonnie Brand-- and they look great sop far |
| bubba
User ID: 704316
7/5/2009 3:23 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
Some of these problems may not be so much caused by fungi,but the lack of the right fungi.This link,which I got off GLP,is a short lecture on good fungus by my personal mentor,Paul Stamets. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 704316
7/5/2009 3:23 PM | | Anonymous Coward
User ID: 718826
7/5/2009 3:26 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
Was introduced by Corporate America to kill everything in the nightshade family that's not GM. |
| Hillcrest
Secretary From Hell
User ID: 392015
7/5/2009 3:30 PM
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nightshade family Quoting: Anonymous Coward 718826
tomatoes
potatoes
peppers (all varieties)
eggplant
tobacco |
| Jessica6
User ID: 718830
7/5/2009 3:37 PM
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Every tomato I cut open this year has black shit inside it
same with my neighbors
shame shame
We're on the East cost.... Quoting: ^TrInItY^
Were these ripe tomatoes you cut open?
Mine are all green still so I haven't looked... First I've heard of this but I live pretty close to NY State - just on the Canadian side. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 164451
7/5/2009 3:40 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
thanks for the tips
yea they are yellow
they look like shit
it's also spreading to my potatoes now it looks like... Quoting: ^TrInItY^
My tomato plants are about 6' high and have given a decent crop so far, but the heat (Texas hill country) has been relentless, with NO rain and I've had to water early morning and early evening. I've also cut up used carpet sections to help the ground retain water. (highly recommended)
My plants are starting to turn yellow and I thought it was just the heat (over 100 degrees for the past couple of weeks) but the stems are getting brown spots too, so I made some colloidal silver solution and sprayed 'em. They SEEM to be getting better now, but I haven't seen a lush green foliage return and the dense branch growth has really dwindled.
No "black stuff" in ANY of the heirloom varieties, but I have seen a lot of 'end rot'...which is normally caused by quickly varying water levels and/or lack of calcium/lime in the soil.
If you know how to make colloidal silver, try that. It doesn't hurt, and so far it's helped mine. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 501121
7/5/2009 4:20 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
It has been much cooler and very wet here in the east. So that contributes. My tomato plants have been doing very well but they didn't come from a store I grew them from seeds 100% organic. This year has seen many GMO crop failures all over the world and one can't help but wonder if some of this hasn't been planned to create some kind of famine or at least make the prices go sky high. Quoting: The Chef
Organic seed? Do you mean heirloom?
Why would it matter how the original plant was grow as long as it's not a hybrid?
I'm kinda new at this I've only been growing for the last 53 years I started when I was 10yo. |
| OneAngryMom
User ID: 697082
7/5/2009 4:26 PM
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how many volcanoes erupted last fall/winter?
There's a clue.
Trinity....might be too late this year, but get those tomatoes pruned back some and get some garlic oil sprayed on them. Treat the soil with Epsom Salt water. Get rid of all the ripe tomatoes (even on the ground)....keep them away from the main plant(s).
Are your tomato leaves okay or are they yellow?
If it's really severe, put black landscape paper around the plants on the ground so any part of the vine touching the ground doesn't contaminate.
You MIGHT be able to save em....it's early enough, but it'll take 3-4 weeks for them to come back if they're gonna.
thanks for the tips
yea they are yellow
they look like shit
it's also spreading to my potatoes now it looks like... Quoting: ^TrInItY^
Yellow leaves means too much water
is there any way you can add soil?
The rot in potatoes is a different story......and it's really hard to cure especially if they're stacked and not in rows....and will probably require some soil remedies next season as the soil depletes itself of things like potassium with large amounts of rain.
you can get bone meal in most lawn/garden shops or feed stores and that might help stop something that's spreading on the ground, but it should be mulched or tilled into the ground.
LIME is what is used in fields where serious flooding has occurred....and time, I'm afraid. If you have roses around, what do they look like? (Roses are always a great indicator of what's going on with other plants in the area because they're so susceptible to all of it.)
I'd be devastated if this happened around here...it must be really hard to see. |
| OneAngryMom
User ID: 697082
7/5/2009 4:34 PM
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thanks for the tips
yea they are yellow
they look like shit
it's also spreading to my potatoes now it looks like...
My tomato plants are about 6' high and have given a decent crop so far, but the heat (Texas hill country) has been relentless, with NO rain and I've had to water early morning and early evening. I've also cut up used carpet sections to help the ground retain water. (highly recommended)
My plants are starting to turn yellow and I thought it was just the heat (over 100 degrees for the past couple of weeks) but the stems are getting brown spots too, so I made some colloidal silver solution and sprayed 'em. They SEEM to be getting better now, but I haven't seen a lush green foliage return and the dense branch growth has really dwindled.
No "black stuff" in ANY of the heirloom varieties, but I have seen a lot of 'end rot'...which is normally caused by quickly varying water levels and/or lack of calcium/lime in the soil.
If you know how to make colloidal silver, try that. It doesn't hurt, and so far it's helped mine. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 164451
yellow leaves ALWAYS mean too much water. If you stick a shovel in the ground, how far down does the soil remain dry? Also....never water tomatoes right before the sun hits em....they'll bake...burn. Should be watered on the ground, usually in the evening after the sun has set.
I've never heard of using colloidal silver on them. Something strikes me as "not good" about this idea, since the tomato is a night shade, but I've got nothin to go on with that.....it's a curious idea. As for carpet on the ground.....make sure that the carpet pieces don't have stuff like carpet cleaner/stain guard/water block stuff on it. Some of the newer carpets are packed full of all sorts of junk. That stuff transfers into the ground and right into the food you're growing. Newspapers and cardboard boxes are also good options....and they break down. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 176812
7/5/2009 4:45 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
Dr. Doom said this would happen a few years ago.
ED Dames Doom |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 718542
7/5/2009 4:54 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
Fusarium is a fungal disease from hell too, with lots of sub-species specialised for attacking different plants. Infected areas may make crops of the affected plant species impossible to grow for decades, even for professionals with access to restricted fungicides...
Speaking from experience, it's pure hell. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 411190
7/5/2009 5:03 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
for several years now i place all grass clippings around the tomato and pepper plants. it keeps the weeds from growing and helps to retain moisture in the ground. this also attracts a lot of worms which is a plus for any garden.
instead of using pesticide to control insects, i use cayenne
pepper which works a lot better and is cheaper/safer. |
| bubba
User ID: 704316
7/5/2009 5:35 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
Chlorinated wated kills beneficial fungi |
| coolhandluke74
Voice Chat Mod
User ID: 718583
7/5/2009 5:58 PM
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So far my plants are ok
Everything is for a season... |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 699925
7/5/2009 6:03 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
THAT'S what's happened to my tomato plants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe-- I've worked to hard to keep my humble little garden going-- and it would seem to no avail?????? |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 718916
7/5/2009 6:04 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
My whole garden, except curcubits has fallen to fungus. I think it came in on the seed potatoes from the "big box stores". Everything else I grow organic from seed.
If I had anyway to prove it came from the potatoes, I'd probably file suit against them. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 368803
7/5/2009 6:17 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
There have been great increases in pests and fungal diseases worldwide this year due to a cooling climate and also the cost of applying fertilisers and fungicide. The result is weakened susceptible plants and no protective treatment. The plants are getting their version of a pandemic. It follows that we will suffer the same fate...underfed weakened population susceptible to disease. Low solar activity has been linked to the growth of diseases and mutations.
Drought is now hitting Canadian districts affected earlier this year by late frosts.
Great post earlier on 1816 and the volcano link. The recent Russian volcano eruption may make for a disastrous harvest this year as SO2 spreads around the Northern hemisphere...it's coming horribly true.
From another thread here, wheat output 2009:
1) Romania = output wheat down -30%
2) Ukraine = output wheat down -27%
3) Hungary = output wheat down -28.5%
4) Czech = output wheat down -20%
5) Bulgaria = output wheat down -30%
6) Poland = output wheat down -10%
7) Spain = output wheat down -42%
8) Australia = output down -10-35%
9) Argentina = output down -34%
10) China = output down -20% or more
11) US = output down -20% or more
12) Canada = output down -12%
13) Russia = output wheat down -21.5%
Conclusion: Nothing has changed. Estimates for agricultural production are being continuously downgraded every month. Droughts, under planting, and lack of credit have devastated global agricultural output. The world is still facing food shortages in 2009. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 699007
7/5/2009 6:38 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
My tomato plants so far are unaffected. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 699007
I am on the east coast. I use a diluted neem solution. Keeps the bugs and fungus away. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 545952
7/5/2009 6:59 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
How about a link to the article.
CONCORD, N.H. – Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
Late blight — the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s — occurs sporadically in the Northeast, but this year's outbreak is more severe for two reasons: infected plants have been widely distributed by big-box retail stores and rainy weather has hastened the spores' airborne spread.
The disease, which is not harmful to humans, is extremely contagious and experts say it most likely spread on garden center shelves to plants not involved in the initial infection. It also can spread once plants reach their final destination, putting tomato and potato plants in both home gardens and commercial fields at risk.
Meg McGrath, professor of plant pathology at Cornell University, calls late blight "worse than the Bubonic Plague for plants."
"People need to realize this is probably one of the worst diseases we have in the vegetable world," she said. "It's certain death for a tomato plant."
Tomato plants have been removed from Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Lowe's and Kmart stores in all six New England states, plus New York. Late blight also has been identified in all other East Coast states except Georgia, as well as Alabama, West Virginia and Ohio, McGrath said.
It is too early in the season to know whether infected plants will taint large crops or negatively affect commercial growers. But if that happens, growers could be forced to raise prices to cover costs associated with combating the disease.
Agriculture officials in the various states still are trying to determine where the outbreak started. One major grower, Alabama-based Bonnie Plants, supplies most of the tomato plants to big-box stores, but it is unclear whether the plants were infected before or after leaving the supplier's multiple greenhouses.
"There's no way in the world you can pin this on one plant company, but we just happen to be the biggest," said Dennis Thomas, the company's general manager.
The company has regularly inspected greenhouses in 38 states, including Maine, New Hampshire and New York. Its most recent inspections — in New Jersey and Pennsylvania — found no evidence of disease.
"We've not been written up one time for any late blight disease that was confirmed," Thomas said, noting that Bonnie Plants sprays seedlings before shipping them to stores, but that doesn't happen after the plants arrive. He said the company was proactive in removing plants once the outbreak occurred.
In the meantime, plant experts are warning gardeners to be on the lookout for the disease and to take quick action if it crops up. The first sign is often brown spots on plant stems, followed by nickel-sized olive-green or brown spots on the tops of leaves and fuzzy white fungal growth underneath. Tomato fruit will show firm, brown spots.
Spraying with fungicides can control late blight if begun before symptoms appear, but many plant experts recommend removing and destroying the plants instead to prevent spores from traveling.
Donald Flannery, executive director of the Maine Potato Board, said the state's potato farmers are concerned, but not in crisis mode.
"It's pretty easy to make our growers aware of it, that's the simple part. But what we've started to do is really reach out to home gardeners throughout Maine to ask them to be very diligent about checking their tomato plants or potato plants," he said.
Hilary Chapman of Hopkinton, N.H., hasn't yet seen any signs of blight on her four tomato plants — two she planted from seed and two purchased from a small local greenhouse.
"I have one plant that has two tomatoes on it, and everything looks good," she said, "but I'll be watching." Quoting: coolhandluke74 |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 548940
7/5/2009 7:02 PM | | Re: Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard | Quote |
OBAMAS FAULT
THE ANTI CHRIST
YOU WANTED IT YOU GOT IT FAMINE AND PESTILENCE AND OBAMA |
| GONG
User ID: 718742
7/5/2009 7:42 PM
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DEAD SUN/DEAD WORLD...
The world is dying now at the END in here..
However...
It has ALWAYS BEEN DEAD..And that is the point to understand..This is the PAST..
The MASK/LIE is just coming off..AGAIN..
It's like only being able to PRETEND for just so long..Or only being able to SUPPRESS A BAD MEMORY and NOT FACE something uncomfortable for just so long..
What you SUPPRESS..Always comes to the SURFACE sooner or later..One way or another.. Quoting: FallenAwaken 718502
I just pictured that scene in the film Matrix where there was a dead world under the cover of a world controlled by machines who appeared normal to the peoples.. :)
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