Root cuttings would be a good idea at this point. You have a relatively long growing season. I have 6 ‘volunteers’ that I know are NOT cherry-types that I’m going to pot up this week and move to the greenhouse to see if I can have tomatoes, along with my usual salad greens until into December this year. Ya never know! With two layers of cover from cold air, I just might be able to pull it off.
As far as the vines being ‘toast’ is it Blight? If there’s still some green to the leaves, give them a pray of Copper fungicide. Can’t hurt, might help!
Been on the fly this week/end! Plans for my Fall Garden include, but are not limited to:
A second planting of Zinnia
Purple Broccoli
Green Onions
French Breakfast Radishes (mild, red, long with a white tip)
Salad greens
Pro Tip: As soon as Walmart has their 6-packs of Mums for sale, I’ll get those potted up to grow some before re-planting Porch Pots for Fall. If you have the means to do it, it’s SO much more economical to buy 6 Mums for the price of one big one later in the season. ;)
Mom is coming out today to start raiding my garden. I have zucchini to share, some semi-ripe tomatoes she can ripen at home and I’ll send her home with a flower bouquet. BLTs for lunch and a slice of Zucchini bread! Yay! :)
Going to mow today after the dew dries. It’s so hilly here, I’ll just SLIDE if I don’t wait. This is only the 4th mowing all season; no rain early on, but we got 3” over the past week, so things have stabilized.
The peaches are a gorgeous color, but still hard as a rock. I check them every day because when they turn, it’s GO TIME!
Puppies are growing so FAST! This morning they’ve already had First Breakfast at 6am; Second Breakfast for the Hobbits is at 11am - Elevensies, LOL! Right now they are playing tug of war with a shop rag they found somewhere. So far they have found the following treasures and brought them into the house yard:
a headless squirrel
a cow knee bone; great for gnawing on!
assorted rocks and old bones
tin cans
an empty plastic oil jug
a child’s shoe!
a sleep mask!
and...a log, LOL!
It takes me longer to pick up the yard than to mow it! They’ve also decamped to the greenhouse; I don’t have the heart to clean it up yet and ruin their fun. Puppyhood is short enough as it is, and they’ll soon be on the Bear Hunting Chain Gang. :(
I *think* it’s early blight, but I’ve never seen plants affected like this so I’m not really sure. They are all dying from the bottom up. The two that are completely dead... they got sick and in less than a week turned brown from the bottom to the top. I’ve hit all of them twice with sulpha powder and three times with copper spray to no avail. I’ll grab a couple pics after the rain stops.
Now that I think more on it I’m sure it’s my own fault that ALL of the plants are sick. I need to put a jug of bleach in the potting shed to disinfect my pruning snips after working on each plant. Cages will definitely need to be bleached after they’re torn down for winter. Humbug! Bah!
I’m generally not a fan of hybrid tomatoes, but Pops likes Better Boy so I always plant a few of those for him. They are by far the least sick of the lot.