Tomatoes, Beans, Peppers & Okra Coming Out My Ears.....How's Your Garden ?

Got hit with some kind of blight and everything is stunted with leaves turning yellow and brown. I know the solution is to not plant tomatoes, eggplants, etc. in the same place every year but my garden is only 4'x20' so it's not like I have rows and rows where I can just shift everything over one row from year to year. Even tomatoes in containers have it. Friggin' depressing...

I've made about 2 gallons of tomato sauce (pizza and pasta too) out of tomatoes, peppers, onions and garlic and have it frozen in sealed bags about 3/8" thick (2 cups each).

Same here. I planted a few tomatoes just up the street at my mom's house last year and they got blight, too. I just can't seem to grown them very well here in the south. I get the first round of ripe ones and then they die.

Too much watering? It's been a hard year to not have too much water with such wet spells. Also, keep removing any yellowing and browning branches immediately. Mulching (I used pine bark nuggets) also seemed to help keep the blight from in the ground off the lower leaves where it starts. Also, copper-based fungicide sprayed early on is a good preventative measure.

My best tomato production this year was 4-10 feet off the ground. By constantly removing the yellow/brown branches/leaves it allowed the higher up foliage to produce virtually unaffected abundantly. I stacked (2) 6ft. cages on top of each other for each plant.

My tomatoes did horrible around Detroit area. Peppers came in slow. We had lots of rain and very sporadic with cold night temps. lots of tomato split, the only one that did ok was the Cherry tomatoes ( my early girl, celebrity, 4th of July are half dead). My flowers are doing well ( petunias )

Don't have a garden but My girls are starting to get old and the egg laying is slowing down. I really wish I was heartless and could cull them but I love every single one of My girls.

Last Edited by jkm1864 on 08/30/2018 08:24 AM

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Got to pick it when its small though, otherwise its like trying to eat a luffa sponge.