Late blight now confirmed on tomato and potato in Mifflin Co., PA - Page 5

barkeater · August 6, 2012

Tania,

Hope you get through it too this year. Like you I lost mine to late blight last year. I didn't pay attention and didn't even know it was in the state for a whole month before I got it.

lakelady · August 6, 2012

Barkeater, I hope your plants survive the late blight, keep spraying if you can. I think Tom in CT has suggested that fishmilk (gardening in the green forum) helped his plants make it for a longer duration in the past so he could get some harvest before the plants went down.

barkeater · August 6, 2012

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Originally Posted by lakelady

Barkeater, I hope your plants survive the late blight, keep spraying if you can. I think Tom in CT has suggested that fishmilk (gardening in the green forum) helped his plants make it for a longer duration in the past so he could get some harvest before the plants went down.

As long as I keep up my weekly sprays of Daconil (Funginol) I should be fine. It worked in 2009 when everyone around me had lost their tomatoes by now. We shall see!

ca1ore · August 10, 2012

Still no sign of LB here in Stamford, CT; although, after being away on vacation for a week of wet humid weather, I do have the first major appearance this year of septoria (pretty aggressive too).

riceke · August 10, 2012

Do you all see on the left index of the wesite the Vegetable Disease heading that shows in great detail some of the tomato and potato diseases? Some great pics to use as reference.

August 6, 2012	#61
barkeater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NE Kingdom, VT - Zone 3b Posts: 1,439	Tania, Hope you get through it too this year. Like you I lost mine to late blight last year. I didn't pay attention and didn't even know it was in the state for a whole month before I got it. __________________ barkeater

August 6, 2012	#62
lakelady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: northern NJ zone 6b Posts: 1,862	Barkeater, I hope your plants survive the late blight, keep spraying if you can. I think Tom in CT has suggested that fishmilk (gardening in the green forum) helped his plants make it for a longer duration in the past so he could get some harvest before the plants went down. __________________ Antoniette

August 10, 2012	#65
riceke Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Snellville, GA Posts: 346	Do you all see on the left index of the wesite the Vegetable Disease heading that shows in great detail some of the tomato and potato diseases? Some great pics to use as reference. __________________ *Ken*

August 10, 2012	#64
ca1ore Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Stamford, CT Posts: 13	Still no sign of LB here in Stamford, CT; although, after being away on vacation for a week of wet humid weather, I do have the first major appearance this year of septoria (pretty aggressive too).