Friday, August 7, 2009

Crop Failure

This is the first time I've ever had to say it. Crop failure. As most of you know there is a blight epidemic this year. Looks like I am going to have to pull and burn all of my plants. I've been fighting it for a couple of weeks but it just keeps spreading. I'm so bummed I can't even write anymore about it. Guess I will just cut my losses and go see the French peeps after all. Here's a few links about it. Cornell University also has a weekly update on tracking it around the country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/nyregion/18tomatoes.html
http://www.umassvegetable.org/LateBlightAlertforTomatoandPotato.html
http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/FactSheets/lateblight/late.htm
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/agricultural_sciences/late_blight_irish_potato_famine_fungus_attacking_135263.html

4 comments:

mostlypurple said...

OH NOOO!!!! I'm so sorry you are loosing plants to blight!! that's got to be rough. I was looking forward to reading your harvest notes, especially on the OSU blue and the Kumatoes....bummer.

Tomatoaddict said...

This is weird....my Kumato's and the P20 don't have the blight. Ha! 90% of the plants have it but they have managed to escape it.
I am pulling all the fruit that is already on the plants to try and get some photo's of what I have before they kick it.

american_gardener said...

Sorry you had to lose so many varieties

Dave

Tomatoaddict said...

Thanks Dave...
I will probably get 1/3 of my crop if it doesn't spread any faster. I'm trying to get pics and save seed from the ones I have left.