By joenesgarden, 8 months and 11 days ago

A Veggie-wrap, please.

volunteer cherry tomatoes November 20, 2009.  I would love to be growing salad greens and cilantro in outside beds as I have in the past,  but it's just not going to happen this year. The vegetable garden needs a major re-work that I hope to have at least partially done by spring, so outside of whatever I plant inside, growing edibles in Joene's garden is done.  So, with 2009 veggies tastes, smells, successes, and disappointments still fresh in my mind, here's my 2009 veggie-wrap.

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By joenesgarden, 9 months and 29 days ago

Pre-frost action

A quick walk through the yard today added urgency to my pre-frost list of to-dos.  Last night's temperature dropped low enough to slightly burn the top edges of a cherry tomato plant - the temperature at 6:30 am was 39 degrees – so a good hard freeze is not too far off.  So what's done and what's left on my to do list? 

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By joenesgarden, 1 year ago

Late blight hits CT tomatoes, potatoes

The July 24, 2009 Hartford Courant report confirms late blight in 6 of 8 counties in Connecticut – New London and Middlesex have, so far, been spared.  According to Joan Allen, pathologist at the University of Connecticut Plant Diagnostic Lab, here are the key points for home gardeners to remember:

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By joenesgarden, 1 year ago

Late Blight

tomato 2tomato 1  If your tomato leaves, stems, and buds don't look something like the healthy plants depicted in the photos at the right … and rather look more like tomatoes depicted at the Late blight on tomato site at Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, some of your veggie growing dreams could be in for a dashing.  Take the time now to study these photos … then head out to your plants and check the stems for sections of dark brown with white fungal growth, and check the leaves for brown sections with underside areas housing tiny white spores.  If you see anything that looks like the photos in the link above you could very well have late blight.  This is a serious fungal threat, not just to tomatoes, but to all nightshades – eggplant, peppers, potatoes.  How big of a threat?  Late blight is the disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine according to a fact sheet put out by Cornell Horticulture.

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