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This is her secret for getting excellent crops like peppers, which she plans four to a pot. She uses half regular soil and half cow manure in her containers, and even though she might get some blight, it's not enough to worry her.Įvery two years, she boosts the amount of manure in each container to renew the soil. Her secret, she says, is cow manure, also from the farm.

Everything she grows, with the exception of cucumbers, is in 40-gallon containers she gets from a farm friend who gets protein in them.

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Sue lives in the town of Spooner, and her backyard is full of containers. She's planted her 60 to 80 tomato plants in the same containers yearly for years. It's recommended that tomato plants are rotated every year into 'new soil' so there are no old pathogens in the soil.Īccording to thirty-year container gardener Sue Hagen, that's not necessarily true. Keep cutting as the blight continues up the stem, hopefully slowing down the progress of the disease.

Or the common cold, for that matter.Įven if you've mulched, cut them off if your lower tomato leaves start to turn yellow or brown. I worry, So I mulch the tomatoes with straw to keep the rain from splashing back up off the soil onto the plant.īizarre theory, right? But consult just about any expert, and they'll have to admit that no one really knows what causes blight. It doesn't seem to affect the tomato, so some people don't worry about it. Unless you remove these leaves immediately, the blight will somehow climb to the top of the tomato plant, taking every leaf hostage. Your crop has blight when the lower leaves turn yellow and brown and fall off. You can have early, mid-season, or late blight, but it's all the same. The word is blight, and it is the tomato gardeners' worst fear. Mulch is anything that lets the rain thru and keeps the soil moist. If you don't have access to straw, but you do have a paper shredder, you've got mulch. Whether your garden takes up half your backyard or in several containers on your deck, now is the time for vigilance. WASHBURN COUNTY - Now that it's midsummer, it doesn't mean the gardener takes any time off. No, They're not Lawyers, but Just as Intrusive. Small Space Gardening: Blight, Mildew, and Mulch.

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