Comments on: Late Blight in Our Garden

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:55:25 +0000

Do Purple potatoes show blight resistance? my early Yukon Golds are all canned and safe! My cherry tomatoes and most my Early Saskatchewan Tomatoes were already green and gold salsa and chutney before I got in trouble! Very wet, dark summer didn’t help at all, but even this long warm fall, I’ve managed to get a few tomatoes! Cabbage was all ‘krauted long before , and turnips are waxed or frozen in freezers already! Peppers did poorly but we ate a few , salsa’ed a few too! I like to can potatoes with red skins on, at just under golf ball size, so I beat the game that way this year! I can’t look forward to a big crop of bakers though, they are in bad shape! I got squash! now, if the ripen a bit in the fall sun, we will have good pork dinners with sweet yellow winter squash all winter long! Carrots -OK as usual, and beans – a disaster! First pi8ckings were very small immature and canned fast, next bunch yuccch! Beets did OK. Variety seems to be the key, I still have tomato juice from last years bumper crop of tomatoes in storage, good thing!

By: Organic guy

Organic guy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:34:47 +0000

I got hit by blight also all 24 tomato plants are infected, what a bummer. The peppers are doing ok but with all the rain in upstate NY the cucumbers also got powdery mildew.

I am not going to give up on gardening ever but how do we treat the infected soil for next year any ideas?

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:35:17 +0000

We have lost all of our tomatoes because of late blight, we also had to dig up all of the potatoes as well. My husband and I spend alot of time in our garnen and take alot of pride in it , we just cant get over how fast it affected the garden ” over night “. As most people we have alot of rain and cool tempertures this summer. Cant wait for next spring. But hope for better results. Thanks for all the infromation.

By: Scott Supak

Scott Supak — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:30:04 +0000

Well, I think I got it. But I’m not sure. The tomato leaves just turn brown, wither, and die. I don’t see spots, or flaky mold-like stuff at all. Just brown, wither, death. They still smell like tomatoes (the leaves)… So I’m wondering if these plants are just unhappy with the cool weather and lack of sun, or do they have the blight? Large dark brown spots spread on the green leaves, but no spots or circles, and it doesn’t look like the pictures…

Oh, and the big plant that volunteered from the compost pile right next to the house and the electric meter has no signs of it: it’s taller than me and healthier too.
.-= Scott Supak´s last blog ..One way to beat a short summer: speed! =-.

By: Donalyn

Donalyn — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:37:22 +0000

We are hard hit as well – my freezer will not be crowded this year. Guess we have to count the blessings of the crops that have done well, and hope for better things next year.
.-= Donalyn´s last blog ..A Winner! =-.

By: kerri

kerri — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:06:19 +0000

It’s a real bummer, isn’t it? As I mentioned before, this will be our first year since growing a veggie garden (and that’s been a LOT of years) that we won’t have tomatoes to can. The little early cherry tomatoes have been a treat, but they won’t be around much longer.
Thanks for the good info, Kathy. Seems like there’s a lot of us in NY state with the same tale of woe.
We’ve had a couple of feeds of lovely new potatoes so far. I’m off to check them now.
.-= kerri´s last blog ..Daylily Delight =-.

By: Margaret Roach

Margaret Roach — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:46:34 +0000

I am celebrating my beans, salad, garlic and greens…all of which look OK, at least….telling them “thank you, thank you” for their good behavior in a lousy year. The potatoes got to good enough size, I think, before the foliage got awful, so I am guardedly optimistic that the crop is at least so-so. The tomatoes…well, that’s another story. I think I will have enough paste to put up about half my annual stock of sauce, but not much else. What a strange year. Sorry to see we are sharing the non-bounty.
.-= Margaret Roach ´s last blog ..garlic harvest and curing: i did something right =-.

By: bibliochef

bibliochef — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:40:19 +0000

I live in upstate too and know a gardener who lost 40 or so tomato plants to a blight he has bene fighting for a few years. Alas. And for oyu, I am so sorry — I love new potatoes.

Eventually (I am behind some ) I will do an entry on my blog that notes yours — because we’re both in upstate. My blog focuses more on cooking and food, but we do have murder mysteries/China Bayles in common!
.-= bibliochef´s last blog ..Fox Run — Garlic Festival =-.

By: Beegirl

Beegirl — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:58:59 +0000

Hi Kathy – so glad you came by via Dee. So sorry to hear about your experience too. It happened so fast!! I think it started on the tomatoes, but now the potatoes looking like they are starting. We are digging them up asap. The plants don’t look too bad, so I am hoping the potatoes are okay. We planted Katatdin and Kennebec. We purchased our tomatoes from a local nursery, but who knows where they came from or what the neighbors have planted. Thanks so much for stopping by. I really appreciate it. Your post is fantastic!
.-= Beegirl´s last blog ..Chinese Takeout =-.

By: June

June — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:00:32 +0000

Oh, I am sorry. It is a dreadful plague. I got hit by a hailstorm that wiped out forty tomato plants last year. I was hoping for a better go this season. But it's not to be, is it? .-= June´s last blog ..Hollyhocks! =-.