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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lisa
Georgetown
OH
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 Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 4:04:10 PM
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I have the blight...bad.. sad.. tomatoes..
So today, I went out to the goat's area, where hubby had chopped down an old apple tree that the gals had destroyed. He piled up the limbs on an old concrete slab, so they could continue to munch at their leisure.. & well, here you go.. a perfectly good plant growing out ouf old apple branches & a concrete slab. Maybe a new technique?? I am willing to try anything at this point.
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
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Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
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Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 4:29:37 PM
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Birds eat tomatos and do not digest the seeds, so where they poop a plant will grow right along with a beginning supply of fertilizer, lol. Pull all of your blighted plants and burn, in order to use that garden area again you will have to cook the disease out of it. Get heavy black plastic and cover the soil, hold down with rocks, garden stakes, whatever, and leave it til next year, then till in new compost.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 05:08:00 AM
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Lisa, I can't believe that tomato plant got that big without being eaten by the goats. I hope you get some good maters! That's amazing where those things pop up, huh? I've had them come up in the most unexpected places and have really good tomatoes on them with no care at all. Maybe we should not worry so much about our plants and let nature do the work for us.
Kris
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New Tomato Soil???
