Why do my tomatoes hate me this year?
emerogork
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Comments (10)You don't understand.. old traps die in winter and are starter food for fungus in winter. The worst problem is the mass of half digested fungus growing insects at the bottom. Cutting the pitchers off eliminates the problem. As I said I had several fungus kills prior to cutting the pitchers before dormancy. I haven't lost one to fungus since and my plants come out swinging in the spring putting up a ton of new growth. 4 years ago I started with a very small immature Judith Hindle, now I have 6 or 8 from divisions, with several new shoots already showing up this spring. 4 are flowering this year. My S. leucophylla 'Tarnok' was also immature 4 years ago, this spring it too is putting up 4 flower stalks and is about to become a nuisance due to it's size. That plant started with one point. It now has 8 or 10, and is spreading like crazy. IÂve cut them back every year. I donÂt think they mind. And no it's not too late to cut any dead/sick pitchers off your plants. If you have healthy new growth I'd leave the live pitchers....See MoreWhy do the gods hate me!? (Rain again!)
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Comments (3)We plant impatiens every year in the same spot in built in flower boxes. Every year the plants do very well and get nice and full and healthy. But it seems like every year about mid august you will see a plant or two start to wilt or die. Then within a few weeks or so it spreads thur the whole area and all the plants are wilted up and sick looking. We usually pull up the plants before summer ends because they look so bad. Any ideas whats going on...See Moredaninthedirt (USDA 9a, HZ9, CentTX, Sunset z30, Cfa)
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