Posted on 08/15/2014 12:26:58 PM PDT by greeneyes
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That’s a bummer RD because I know you were excited to get back on the “Farm” and carry on where you left off...
We are still in stage 2, but will probably be in stage 3 restrictions soon. The past two days were nice here too, but it is close to 100 now.
It is called : Tobacco Mosiac Virus
It is a virus that once it becomes established , the control is for the infected plants should be cut out, removed and destroyed.
A good photo of the virus effects on plants and fruit can be seen at :
< / http://gardenofeaden.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-control-mosaic-virus-on-tomatoes.html \ >
It can be spread through the contact by tobacco products or where plants from the Nicotiana family are , or have been grown.
One of the controls for prevention is having cigar and cigarette smokers wash their hands in milk .
Apparently , milk holds not only fungicidal characteristics,but also some anti-viral properties.
Tobacco Mosiac Virus can also occur airborne , downwind of tobacco drying facilities , or in proximity to flowering plants of the Nicotiana family.
Qiviut , your post reminded me of my strickly organic farming days , and Tobacco Mosiac affects so many solanaceous plant in the garden.
Thanks for the reminder about milk products and their anti-fungal and anti-virus properties.
To the same place I’m sending the armadillos I snare around here.
A .22 in the head does the job...
We’ve gotten a bit of rain this afternoon here in Central Missouri.
Nanner and I spent some time in the pond this week and I managed to run over something really hard and sharp and cut a big gash in the right front tire. Fortunately the tire shop was able to install a boot and we’re back up and running.
BLT’s for supper tonight. The Brandywines are so big you could make two sandwiches with one slice of tomato.
Fishing on the Osage in the morning if it’s not pouring down rain.
Mrs. Augie says it’s time to harvest some of the herb garden to save for winter. We already put up a mountain of oregano so I’m guessing that she means the thyme and basil. I was hoping to avoid all forms of work this weekend but it doesn’t look like she’ll let me get away with it.
You’re welcome .... and thanks for the great info! ~Q
Now, it looks like it has cleared up, and i could drive the 16 miles to my last job of the day, but I have already cancelled it with the client, so i guess I’ll just stay home.
Summer in hurricane Season.
‘Mater question: I have all heirlooms, they are loaded with green fruit, but the fruit had yet to ripen! Any suggestions? I’ve always grown heirlooms and have staked and not staked. I didn’t stake them this year.
On the cucumber side, I got a cuke from one of my plants. You would expect it, normally, but in this case, I was quite surprised. The plant was a test, in a smaller container/pot. The plant itself hasn't grown much - it has several very small leaves, but in total, the plant might be about 2 - 3 inches tall, and that's it - anyhow, it started blooming like crazy and all of a sudden, there's a big cuke on it, quite bigger than the plant itself. I found it interesting.
Rain will make your garden grow. I don’t know about knocking on doors of strangers. Back when I was a kid, I wouldn’t have thought anything about it, but it’s a different world now.
I had some nice rose bushes, but I think the hard winter hurt them, and they have been sickly. Hubby decided that a wild petunia that came up in the bed was really pretty.
I just found out he has been harvesting the seeds, and immediately replanting them. Now the roses are totally surrounded by these petunias that are about 18” tall and have kinda tiny pretty flowers.
Not at all what I would want right in front of the house, just like his project to move all the Iris and Tall lilies from my backyard patio to line the driveway with. Too messy looking from the road.
He put blueberry bushes in the backyard patio garden, which is not so bad, but then He decided to let some wild passion flowers grow, and try to cultivate more of them. They are about 4 or 5 feet tall. Have really different flowers, but not so pretty when not in bloom.
Oh well, whatever makes him happy.LOL
You need a more understanding best friend.
Winter rye is good. Also hairy vetch and clover.
Well at least you have some good maters. Life is still good.LOL
I am so suspicious of tomato stuff, that I don’t even put the plants in the compost pile - it all goes to the burn pile, and I rotate the plantings so that there is at least 4 years in between the times that tomatoes are planted.
Hubby has been trying to do that too for the last several days. He has been making excuses to postpone burning the trash to the point that I had no where to empty the trash cans to.
So he takes one of the trash cans indoors and dumps it into another bag. Then he brings it to me and shows me that there are fruit flys in the bottom and says see why we have fruit flys.
I’m like - well burn the trash a little more often so I don’t have to have trash building up in the house.LOL
Well, since the dye is cast, at least kick back and enjoy a little “found” time for yourself.
I will stake the tomatoes if necessary to keep the fruit off the ground, or if the stems seem to flimsy to support them.
I will also pick them as soon as they start to turn a little. The squirrels will usually leave the green ones alone till they get to be orange all over. So I bring them in and wash them in warm water, let them dry, and then wrap them in newspaper or paper towels and let them ripen.
The 4 year cycle rotation is the ideal agricultural practice .
Even the seed stores here have dandelion (sp ?) seed since the roots go down as deep as 15 feet into the subsoil
and draw up micro-nutrients back up into the topsoil .
That is the ideal if you have adequate room for a large garden.
If you don't have much gardening room , you should still rotate "families " of crops to minimize disease and maximize productvity,
or keep a chart of which crops you grew where , so as to keep the soil in rotation.
Must have something powerful somewhere in the mix.LOL
That’s right. Even the smallest spaces are rotated. We let the dandelions grow as rampant as they want in our yard. After all, they are one of the earliest sources of Vitamin C in the spring.
We have mullein which grows in the wild, and Hubby has been letting several of those grow too as they are supposed to bring up lots of nutrients from below.
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