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To: Arkansas Tider

How do you sterilize the tomato cages and do you still have disease? My plants suffer a late blight and not much I can do about it due to our close proximity to Humboldt Bay and cool night temperature.


70 posted on 10/31/2015 4:06:07 PM PDT by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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To: tubebender

I use a 100gl cattle trough filled with water and 2 packs of swimming pool shock, nothing will survive that level of chlorine. I also sterilize the stakes, tools, picking baskets etc. I deal with early (Southern) blight every year, once its in the soil other than fumigating you can’t get rid of it. I use several methods to keep it at bay for as long as possible, plastic mulch, pine straw mulch, pruning lower leaves and a strict spraying schedule with copper sulfate.

Late blight is a different animal altogether, it is airborne and can spread for miles in a single day. You might want to try some short season varieties like early girl, glacier or sub artic plenty to beat the cool Northwest nights.


88 posted on 11/01/2015 9:13:19 AM PST by Arkansas Tider (Army EOD (Ret))
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