It can be difficult to determine what disease is affecting the veggies in your garden, but if you look closely, you can tell ...
Close-up photo of tomatoes on the vine with mold and tomato blight - Irina Starikova1811/Shutterstock If you've started to notice dark spots, brown leaves, or yellow ...
Tomatoes are a hot commodity and among the simplest crops to cultivate. However, even with disease-resistant varieties, blight can pose a significant challenge. Blight is a fungal disease that spreads ...
The first answer is to make sure you are rotating where you grow crops by using a three-year cycle. For Mary, she just doesn’t have the space for this so we move on to other options. Perhaps the most ...
Q: I'm busy looking at seed catalogs to plan my garden, but remembered how blight took over my tomatoes this past summer. You answered a question for another person concerned with the same problem, ...
Q: My tomatoes were all affected by blight this season. Is there anything I can treat the soil with to kill the disease for following seasons? I know rotation of the site is best, but I have a limited ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — On a morning in late May, a group of volunteers gathers at West Virginia University’s Organic Research Farm in Morgantown, a rippling plot of land northeast of campus. For the next ...
Follow this guide when buying tomato plants to ensure you get the healthiest, disease-free pick that will keep producing ...
In an ordinary season, John Holbrook would have all his tomato plants in the ground at Holbrook Farm in Bethel. This year, he started moving them out in mid-June. It was too cold and rainy to expose ...
The start of the autumn garden season begins as nights grow cooler, and days become shorter and this is also when late summer and fall garden problems start to sprout. From late blights on tomatoes to ...
Lenny Burger shows an example of what blight looks like in his family’s tomato crop in Butler Township. S. John Wilkin/The Times Leader Tomatoes plucked right off the vine are a rite of summer so ...