late blight
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Delaying late blight for a healthy tomato harvest
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Late blight(Phytophthora infestans) is a fungal disease that can’t be cured. Once the plant is infected we can only delay the symptoms enough for the plants to produce fruits. While there are many fungicides available, people who use natural methods are in a difficult situation. But, with a couple of easy tricks, we can slow…
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Post rain cleaning part 2- more tomato blight
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We’re back to our normal rain dodging. For the past 3 days, there have been showers all around us and we didn’t get a single drop. Since we’re surrounded by 4 mountains, all the rain ends up on the mountains, and we get little to no rain. Now that we got no rain, and we’re…
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Post rain cleaning and blight eruption
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Finally, we got some rain. Although it was only 10mm, it’s still good to have some rain for the plants, so today as I always do after the rain, I went to clean up the garden. The plan was to simply remove the weeds and trim the overgrown plants. An easy couple of days of…
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Tomato blight and septoria leaf spot
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Every gardener that grows tomatoes will sooner or later come across a stage where his tomatoes will look sick, spotty, black, or yellow. There are many different tomato diseases and different causes. This time of the year the most common diseases are fungal diseases so I bring you a list of the 3 most common…