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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie
From what I gather on here, it's easier to get away without spraying at all when you live in a climate with a short season. The longer the plants are alive, the more time they have to get disease.
I tried the no-spray approach the past few years, but my disease pressure gets worse every year. I am going to spray as much as possible next year. If I don't, I'll get one good crop, and then the plant dies, typically of fungal issues.
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Over half dozen years, I found that pest pressure increased rather than disease. Disease pressure dropped overall when I adopted the pruning strategy, but otherwise follows the weather. But pests can spread disease (fungus gnats for example) so that might be an issue here too as pests build up and are hard to get rid of. I think gnats played a role in my late season here this year.
You're right about short season too, I'm ready to cut the plants down for the year when someone south is just getting started.