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Title: OT but I need to know Post by: jasmine64 on May 22, 2008, 03:00:01 pm does anyone here raise tomatoes?
I'm trying again this year to grow tomatoes but I have for the past 4 years gotten the tomatoes that die from the tomato blight. Really getting tired of it. I was told to remove all the soil from the raised bed I'm growing in and spray the bed completely with fungicide. let it dry and refill with new clean soil. I did that and evern moved the bed. I need input. Last year over night some little white beetles ate all my pumpkins. Title: Re: OT but I need to know Post by: aspbear on May 22, 2008, 07:08:28 pm jasmine, I tell you a trick that I use beside moving your tomato plants to a different area each year or freshen the soil. In a small pump sprayer say about 10 ounces mix in 3 tablespoons of listerine (just the old regular kind) and mist the plants every few days.
It really does help with the blight and yes I have heard the line about not only do you get tomatoes you freshen your breath at the same time.... Title: Re: OT but I need to know Post by: jasmine64 on May 23, 2008, 08:44:23 am I'll have to try that.
Now does miracle grow really work... I need to go buy some tomato cages today and get them around the tomatoes before they are too big. I plan on growing a couple pumpkins for show if the stupid beetles dont eat them again. Title: Re: OT but I need to know Post by: aspbear on May 23, 2008, 05:28:04 pm Jasmine, I dont know about the miricale grow I guess it would work. I have a friend that is into spelunkin (cave exploring) and he brings me a bucket of bat manure that I use and it works great. Bat manure and listerine, now that is a combination.
Title: Re: OT but I need to know Post by: jasmine64 on May 24, 2008, 09:35:52 am :laugh:
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