RE: {Home Grown Food:415} Digest for home-grown-food@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 2 Topics

[Inglis-Widrick,Ruth]

Hi Sue,

Do you know if you got that yellow pear from me?? Some of mine are showing some diseased-like symptoms (in pots).  In the ground they are doing fine.  Might be a fertilizer problem, then.

Ruth

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• Tomatoes: how are yours doing? Neighbor reports blight [1 Update]
• mid season fertilizing..is it necessary [1 Update]

 Tomatoes: how are yours doing? Neighbor reports blight

Sue Sullivan <sue...@aol.com> Aug 10 10:50AM -0700  

I pruned off damaged looking leaves (washing the pruner between plants
in a diluted alcohol bath) two weeks ago on the plants that seemed
largely healthy. Those plants are now showing damaged leaves again,
but nobody has up and died on me. Whatever this is, it's slower moving
than my neighbor reported. It's hit and miss in my home garden and at
the farm where I am growing crops. Some tomatoes look pretty bad,
yellow pears and a moskvich for me, others look beautiful still. I am
inclined to leave plants until enough leaves are compromised that it
is clear it won't be able to ripen fruits up on the vine.
 
I would think amending beds then covering with black plastic would be
great in the fall. It should trap heat and speed up the digestion of
the compost. I might be inclined to poke some holes in the plastic if
we get a good snow, to give the beds moisture as it melts. I
guess the question is would covering the beds in plastic keep the
soil from freezing thoroughly enough to kill of overwintering
diseases. I might be inclined to remove the plastic in Dec. or Jan. to
allow a hard freeze to happen.
 
I'd be interested in what others think....
 
Sue


 

 mid season fertilizing..is it necessary

Sue Sullivan <sue...@aol.com> Aug 10 10:41AM -0700  

I've read that early August is when you want to start pinching off any
new blossoms on tomatoes, so that the plants will concentrate all
their energy on finishing up the fruits they've already set, not that
I ever manage to do that in any comprehensive way. I'll be interested
to read others' answers on this, but I would think that an application
of a balanced fertilizer now would help the plants in that push to
ripening.
 


 

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