It's about time I post a garden update, it's been awhile. I've been neglecting this blog, but I promise that I have not been neglecting the garden. Some plants are going great and others are having a bit of a struggle.
The last I posted I had Septoria Leaf Spot on my tomatoes. Originally I tried some copper/sulfur leaf powder, but it didn't do any good. It was time for a new strategy. I purchased some liquid copper spray and showered them with it once a week for a few weeks. All my tomato plants were saved, in some form or another.
The last I posted I had Septoria Leaf Spot on my tomatoes. Originally I tried some copper/sulfur leaf powder, but it didn't do any good. It was time for a new strategy. I purchased some liquid copper spray and showered them with it once a week for a few weeks. All my tomato plants were saved, in some form or another.
The plant that had it the worse ended up tall with only two leaf clusters at the top and one tomato. The riper the fruit got the more the plant slowly died, until one day it was nothing but a twig sticking out of the ground. And something stole the almost ripe tomato.
But I couldn't bring myself to remove the plant, so I just trimmed the brown stem almost to the soil. I continued to water it, in denial that the plant was really dead. And guess what, it paid off! Suddenly there were leaves sprouting up at the base of the stem, and new stems shooting up. It lives again!
No current garden pictures for this update, but I went ahead and threw in a irrelevant houseplant photo.
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