July Garden Tour Part 2 - Welcome to the Jungle! Cukes, zuchs, tomatillos and tomato problems!
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The garden is growing like crazy and it seems like it turned into a jungle overnight! I'm harvesting lots of great stuff, but all I can focus on is my dying tomatoes. Any ideas on what's happening?? Follow along and comment with any advice, or let me know what you're growing in your garden. I'll be back next month with another update. Cheers! For recipes and more information, head over to http://coleycooks.com.
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cat pissing in your garden is killing plants'
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Great garden update :)
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this is late blight. it can devastate plants in 1 night. if the weather is hot and relatively dry and the fungus didn't manage to produce spores (white powder on the dying plant tissues) there's a good chance to keep the tomatoes alive. generally late blight is not an issue in mediterranean-type climates but it really strikes in cool and wet weather, but only shows up as it gets warm. in my experience there is no 100% effective prevention or cure to this disease (Phytophtora infestans), but the best treatment so far for me was 1% natural hydraulic lime + 1% ascorbic acid dissolved in water and a bit of soap sprayed on the leaves. otherwise plant some proven late blight resistant varieties (Matt's wild cherry, Mountain Magic F1, Jasper F1 and a few more hybrids).
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I think most of us would admit to blight and wilt with our tomato plants some time before the season ends. One thing that does help is using the single stem method. This allows more air flow through the plant.
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Unfortunately its Fusarium Wilt, heirloom varieties don't have the resistance to it that newer hybrids do. I grow them in containers so each plant has plenty of space and so if this does occur it doesn't spread. You have a great looking garden otherwise!
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Sometimes we have to learn the hard way to become better gardeners , I had all the positives and the negatives and accepted it all in my first year gardening but the blow my mind moment was when my brandy wine tomato plant got a disease that turned all the leaves yellow and black spotted so I tried to find a cure on YouTube and seen a video by Gary Pilarchik about the use of aspirin and actually gave it one aspirin crushed in water once every two weeks and a month later after pruning the yellow leaves have a healthy plant out growing its cage . If I recall he suggested adding it when you transplant tomatoes , but worked great for me i have photo documentation and it's still going .
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just had some white jersey peaches in s fl stand-- great! nice big garden
please let us know if u find the culprit, on the maters? -
Well, I am glad I subscribed to your channel. My tomatoes have done the exact same thing, but the very tops are still producing tomatoes (specifically my black cherries). From the comments below seems like possible wilt, where I thought it was the heat (live in TX). My chard looked like yours until we got rain and then we got snails. Gary said to use iron phosphate (?), so I am going to look into that. I have toads and I don't want to harm them, just the snails.
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Awesome garden update! Looks like a lot of people are enjoying your garden tours :^) Keep up the nice work!
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It's what Gary said. Heat damage. Getting the same in Connecticut.
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3:43 The plant is nicely green and bearing fruit, so rather than fertilizer perhaps a nice helping of compost. That will energize the soil and allow the plant to fight the problem and allow for the plant to take up the fertilizer more effectively. Some fish emulsion wouldn't be a bad idea either. Of course, I'd rip out those plants that look basically dead and cut out the dying branches.
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my green zebra has been a favorite of the squash bugs, so i've sprayed it a bunch with neem and pick them off daily
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Your tomatoes have fusarume wilt I would tack the plants out because it will spread to your other plants so hurry rip those ones out
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Great looking tour. Everything looks fantastic. The mosquitos are loving my peppers. A little neem oil spray and it seems to do the trick.
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It looks like your tomatoes are affected by Fusarium wilt ( the ones not affected by blight). I got tired of dealing with tomato diseases so now I grow them hydroponically and it made a world of difference. You will have to manage your soil well and/or grow tomatoes with a long list of disease immunity if you want success in growing tomatoes in soil.
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Thanks for the update! Sorry about your tomatoes. I have had similar things happen from time to time, but only on some plants not all/most., don't really have a solution. Everything else is looking really good, though! I planted butternut squash for the first time this year and they get enormous! I have been cutting them back with a hoe to keep them in a reasonable area! haha!
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Hi neighbor. Greenheads,,,uuuuggh! Watch your parsley if you grow it...that black swallowtail butterfly in your video will leave hungry caterpillars that love to chew it. I cannot help you with your tomato troubles, but Gary can...he's been so helpful to me in my 3 years of gardening. It's nice to have someone like Gary who's so knowledgeable- and in our same grow zone- sharing with us, too. Best of luck. Love your cooking videos.
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Seems like the problem with the tomatoes could be too much water. Does that make any sense to you? Loved the garden tour - mine is pretty much a jungle now too!
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Wow nice garden! =) Is your lemon verbena an annual or perennial in your zone?
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keep them as pruned as possible. clip the lower leaves so nothing touches the ground. Plus what all the others have stated.
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