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Old August 26, 2010   #8
gill_s
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kent, UK
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Default Seed transmitted disease.

Thank you all for your help.
Carolyn, I have researched the disease diagnosis web sites and had to agree that it does look like Bacterial Speck. I had read that the strain of Pseudomonas Syringae that infected tomatoes was not widespread on other plants. The fact that I cannot find any other incidence of it nearby led me to think it was from seed or compost(I have still to investigate the sources of the compost).
My original post was probably misleading. This problem first came to my notice on one or two plants initially and then spread to the others going into the greenhouses last(maybe on my hands). If I could find any other gardens with a similar problem in the area I should be more than convinced that it had blown in on the wind. Maybe the mystery will never be solved but I shall endeavour to be disease free next year.
I shall send some photos but still need to find out how to do this so will send them in a different post.
Thanks again
Gill
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