I live in North Tx and had blight hit my tomatoes. I removed the plants, but lots of the leaves fell on the soil. My question is will the leaves cause another problem and how do I correct the problem. I really do not want to remove the soil. It is in a raised bed in the back yard. I live in a neighborhood. Please help this wanabe veg. gardener.
In my experience the only thing that will help is moving your tomatoes to a different area for at least two years. Get up All the sick leaves that you can. Do not compost them. Bag them and put them in the trash. Black plastic won't help with fungus and some bacterial diseases. It will kill all the weeds. The next time you plant tomatoes in this area be sure to mulch so the soil does not splash on the leaves when it rains. We have it this year too. I'm already getting the soil ready for where they will go next year. We have never planted there before so we have lot's of amending to do. Connie
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tomato blight question
Posted - Jul 09 2011 : 4:37:30 PM
