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SweetFeet · Mar 8, 2020

Is this enough baking soda spread on my "mater wagon", to stop the tomato fungus... or do I need to sprinkle more?

SweetFeet · Mar 8, 2020

Jeepers... forgot the pic.
Getting old timer's, I guess.

4520BW · Mar 8, 2020

I have an interesting article on my work computer about the tomato fungus, i try to find it tomorrow. We have had best luck rotating tomatoes to different areas. Dad cuts the yellow branches off and burns them, dont know if that helps stops the spread of fungus or nor.

johnlobb · Mar 9, 2020

I would probably use twice that much. I got my baking soda at Costco...

coshoo · Mar 9, 2020

If you're talking about "Tomato Blight" that kills the leaves and eventually the whole plant, sprinkling calcium won't help. If blossom end rot, incorporate calcium into the hole when you plant- some suggest pulverized egg shells, but I just use a little lime (or the baking soda would also work fine). And rotating planting location also helps pretty much all vegetables by starving the plant-specific pests that overwinter in the soil.

SweetFeet · Mar 9, 2020

4520bw,

Will watch for your info.

SweetFeet · Mar 9, 2020

Thanks, John. I will get some more today.

SweetFeet · Mar 9, 2020

Coshoo,

For plant blight.

Last year I did smash a Tum's and put it into the planting hole.

Those tomato plants were looking really good until we got a really bad thunder storm that twisted and broke some tomato branches... and splashed dirt all over the plants.
My plants were not staked yet - becsuse when I left on my 3 week southern trip, they were not even tall enough to stake... then we got that hot humid weather and they just shot up.
So when that bad storm hit, it really tore them up... broke branches, left them laying right in the dirt.

Think I will mulch my tomato plants this year, in hopes that will also help.

4520BW · Mar 9, 2020

I am still looking, corporate dumped windows 10 on us this weekend so having trouble finding stuff. ( or at least that my excuse for not finding it)

wd9garymn · Mar 9, 2020

Sweetfeet--3 important things we learned from the folks at Jung seed co. Rotate your crop--don't plant tomatoes in the same place every year. clean up ALL crop residue in the fall and mulch around the plants to keep dirt from splashing on stems and leaves. I think the clean up and mulch are very important. Gary.

4520BW · Mar 9, 2020

https://www.pennlive.com/gardening/2014/08/tomatoes_are_yellowing_dying_hope this works

coshoo · Mar 9, 2020

Best thing you can do to prevent blight is to keep the plant as dry as possible. I always water with a hose, right at the base of the plant, not with a sprinkler. In your area it rains much more in the summer than it does here (SW Washington), so there may be nothing you can do- the blight spoors are airborne, and will take hold much more easily on a wet plant. Oh, there is one thing- TAKE YOUR SOUTHERN TRIPS IN THE WINTER, LIKE NORMAL MINNESNOWTANS!!! LOL

SweetFeet · Mar 10, 2020

Wd9gary,

Thanks.

I think I might plant half my tomstoes in the manure spreader. Thst way in coming years, I can at least switch the pkanting from one end to the other... in both the wagon and the spreader.

Also planning to mulch the plants.

SweetFeet · Mar 10, 2020

Coshoo,

LOL!! I'd only like to take one more southern trip... and then just stay there!

I do only water the base of tomato plants, rather than sprinkle the whole plant... so hoping thst planting rotation will help.

SweetFeet · Mar 10, 2020

4520bw,

Not able to get link to work on my phone... will try it on my computer tonight.

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