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To: Silentgypsy

The fibrous matter in the outer flesh of your tomatoes might be due to stink bugs feeding on the fruit. I fight them every year.

My big problem with tomatoes plants is fungus that starts on the lower leaves and moves up the plant. If I don’t use fungicide it kills the plants. I have tried every option from location rotation to not using mulch, to newspaper mulch and the black plastic. Nothing stops the fungus and the spores are everywhere.


161 posted on 06/29/2014 4:54:11 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

***Nothing stops the fungus and the spores are everywhere.***

I bought a pump sprayer for foliar spraying of bonnie plant food, and also for a milk/baking soda mixture to spray for fungus. More info here:

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/baking-soda-spray-tomatoes-71626.html

I really like the sfgatehomeguide gardening stuff, btw.


162 posted on 06/29/2014 7:35:48 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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