Picture by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 July 2011.
20+ pounds of okra, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, and a watermelon.
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Brown dog helps the tomatoes grow: Continue reading
You Say Tomato, I Say Agricultural Disaster, by Dan Barber, NY Times, 8 August 2009.
According to plant pathologists, this killer round of blight began with a widespread infiltration of the disease in tomato starter plants. Large retailers like Home Depot, Kmart, Lowe’s and Wal-Mart bought starter plants from industrial breeding operations in the South and distributed them throughout the Northeast. (Fungal spores, which can travel up to 40 miles, may also have been dispersed in transit.) Once those infected starter plants arrived at the stores, they were purchased and planted, transferring their pathogens like tiny Trojan horses into backyard and community gardens.Sounds like industrial agricultural distribution strikes again.
The tomatoes pictured grew in sougth Georgia and have no blight, unless you count hornworms, which we do most mornings, picking them off the plants.
Don’t let the white stuff alarm you; it’s just diatomaceous earth, to cut down on the creepy crawlies.
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman.
Must remember to go to the garden every day; this is what happens with one day skipped. Corn, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, yellow squash, tomato, buttercup, butternut, and eggplant. 34 pounds.
The zucchini are playing out; most of these we wouldn’t have bothered picking a week ago. The tomato, corn, and watermelon are new this picking.