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02-11-2013, 12:21 PM | #1 |
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Non-blighting plants
I've been fighting tomato blight in my garden for a few years. Last year, before I could go bag up the spent tomato plants, ds went out and stomped every leaf right into the dirt. I can now consider the dirt as saturated with blight spores as it's possible to be.
So my new strategy will be to not grow anything blight-able for a few years. So, no tomatoes or potatoes obviously. I suspect squash varieties propagate blight so I'm not doing those. Sunflowers are out, too. I'm thinking every kind of green in existence would be okay. Root veggies: beets, turnips, carrots, parsnips should be okay. Any other thoughts on what I can or shouldn't grow? What about snow peas? Remember, I'm not trying to just grow something that will fruit despite the blight, but won't help the spores propagate at all.
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02-11-2013, 02:00 PM | #2 |
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Re: Non-blighting plants
Were you able to narrow down exactly what kind of blight you have? Not sure if that would be a factor. We're blight-free so far, despite having neighbours and relatives who have it big time. Wishing you every success for a fast elimination!!
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02-11-2013, 03:27 PM | #3 |
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Re: Non-blighting plants
I think it's late blight. It came down with a wind from the northeast U.S. a few years ago during a very wet, cold summer. I get some tomatoes before things die too much, but it's persistent.
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DS (12), DD (10), DD2 (7) And my kids were going to behave perfectly all the time and if they didn't, they'd be Dobsoned, but I was going to Dobson so perfectly that they'd know not to slip up but once or twice because I was going to be sooooooo consistent and awesome and wise. |
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