Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the northeast, home gardeners expecting the usual bumper crop of tomatoes this season were dismayed to find their plants affected by late blight, the same fungus that caused Ireland's potato famine in the 19th century.
Skippy's Vegetable Garden (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
At the Seed Swap last weekend, Gretta (a local farmer, Shared Harvest CSA) talked with us about Late Blight. Her advice is to compost or dig in the tomatoes but make sure you remove all potatoes. The potatoes are the potential for spreading spores next year. Late Blight can overwinter in live plants (i.e. the potato tubers). - DON'T let ANY undug potatoes sprout next year....
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Late blight is infamous as the cause of the Irish Potato Famine, an unforgettable period of Irish history in which four consecutive years of potato crop failure in the mid-1800s left millions of people starving or dead. And though these days most people think of the disease as a potato plague of the past, it remains a serious problem, threatening to wipe out potato crops in countries...
Skippy's Vegetable Garden (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
As I clean up for next year, the Late Blight topic is coming up again. To bag and dispose or to compost? There are two different camps out there: Composters: HortBlog Gardener's Corner (Interesting last comment here where they recommend leaving the tomato plants to overwinter in the field as is so they will self-sow.) Disposers: Maryland Cooperative Extension Dave's Garden Cornell University...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
T he home gardeners and organic gardeners on the East Coast who were hit so hard by the early appearance of late blight are already wondering what next tomato season will bring.
About Gardening (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
... the minute it turns red. This year a large chunk of the U.S. was treated to a rash of late blight. Late blight can travel fast and far and its affects on tomatoes and potatoes is distressingly quick. If you live in an area that late blight swept through and managed to eek out some unaffected tomatoes and potatoes, what is safe and unsafe to do with them? If they look fine, they're probably...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
The home gardeners and organic gardeners on the East Coast who were hit so hard by the early appearance of late blight are already wondering what next tomato season will bring.Is there something that can be done this fall to ensure that the blight, which usually appears late in the season after all the fruit has been harvested, doesn't short-circuit next summer's tomato...
Kicking and Screaming (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... pulled it from. 2 hours in a warm spot gets much better results. And for those of us stricken with late blight this year there is hope. There are currently 3 tomato varieties listed as resistant, one of which "legend" is open pollinated. Buy now, there may be a run on these seeds come spring.
Veg Plotting (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... content. He's also produced varieties with shorter cooking times and longer keeping qualities. Blight resistance of course is a bit of a holy grail at the moment, particularly with the emergence of a new vigorous strain of late blight - Blue-13 - which has already seen some of the traditionally resistant varieties such as Cara, succumb in this country. Tom is an independent...
Skippy's Vegetable Garden (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... to hear potatoes described as "exciting". The Irish potato famine of 1740, caused by Late Blight spreading rapidly in Irish fields planted almost exclusively with a single variety, lasted 3 years. I hope our Late Blight episode in New England is more short-lived. And hopefully it won't spread outside of New England. I didn't know that the most popular variety...
Skippy's Vegetable Garden (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... beds. But at least its not all of my beds. Another thing I wanted to figure out is moving all Late Blight susceptible crops (all solanacea) out of my community plot and into my home garden for next year. This seems to work out fine. All tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants and peppers will fit fine at home. I looked up companion planting information and added a few flowers and herbs that...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... (1 millilitre/litre) along with sticker should be sprayed, the ICAR has advised. To control late blight and buck eye rot in tomato, phytophthora rot in onion and bacterial wilt/phytophthora fruit rot in brinjal, spray of Equation-pro (1 ml/l) or Acrobat (2 g/l) has been advised. For purple blotch disease of onion, Dithane M-45 or Kavach (2 g/l) should be sprayed. Anthracnose in chilli...
The Daily Gazette stories (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
In a year marred by heavy rains, hail storms and late blight, many commercial farmers are checking insurance policies on their crops.
Living the Frugal Life (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
74 pounds of potatoes. That was our one-day harvest on Wednesday. I had hoped to wait for our first frost to harvest the potatoes that remained in the ground. A frost would have given us just a bit more confidence that the blight wouldn't settle on the tubers after harvest and then rot them in storage. But the weather has not been cooperative. We've been hit with downright wintry temperatures...
Henbogle (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
We had a cold night last night, it dipped below 30°F. The frost left gorgeous patterns on my car this morning. I’m trying to extend the season as long as I can with the hoop house and floating row cover. Finally, I will succumb, fold my floating row covers, and hope that the bitter cold kills every single last late blight spore in my garden, so that I can start fresh next year. I’m already...
