Apparently, the DFW area has been hit hard by tomato blight. And, we will continue to get hit hard until we see a really hard freeze. The only solution until then is to switch to hybrid varieties.
The problem is, we have hit the point where it is to late in our season. It has now hit the point where it is to hot for any new tomato production on current plants.
I will be pulling up the current plants and hope for a hard freeze this winter.
I'm trying to do things organic as a form preparedness practice. If things are bad enough that I will be depending on my gardening, I will not be able to buy chemicals in that case. I was trying to grow heirloom varieties as muck for their seeds as to get the actual tomatos.
Yeah, but if you've got blight, you might want to get your heirloom varieties and use fungicide for as many years as you can actually get it to try to keep your ground from getting re-infected. You know, each really hard freeze killing off more, etc.
Again, brown thumb here.
And you might want to see how well the fungicide stores and stock it.
Sorry, I'm a former chem major. I'd be looking at the chemicals and saying, "Yeah, but what would it take for me to make these?" LOL
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http://tribune-democrat.com/local/x1617556626/Experts-Tomato-blight-is-back
They say to spray uninfected plants according to schedule and destroy infected ones.
Unless you do organic.
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I will be pulling up the current plants and hope for a hard freeze this winter.
I'm trying to do things organic as a form preparedness practice. If things are bad enough that I will be depending on my gardening, I will not be able to buy chemicals in that case. I was trying to grow heirloom varieties as muck for their seeds as to get the actual tomatos.
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Again, brown thumb here.
And you might want to see how well the fungicide stores and stock it.
Sorry, I'm a former chem major. I'd be looking at the chemicals and saying, "Yeah, but what would it take for me to make these?" LOL
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