Thursday, August 13, 2009

Disease and pest


I've got some septoria leaf spot on a few of my tomato plants. One Manitoba has been decimated, and the other is on its way. I'm going to have to take them up, and I suppose I'll just have to do fried green tomatoes. The reason, I'm certain is a combination of cool, wet weather with fairly intense tomato planting. This is one of the downsides of square foot gardening. Like a packed city, disease spreads quickly.

Also, while the dry weather has meant the slugs have slowed down (not ceased), there are still earwig issues in the beans and stinkbugs (which come in many shapes and colours) are in many places. I'd like to import a few toads but squishing works for now.

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