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Comments (6)Jay, Too bad the rain mostly missed you, but it is a good thing the hail missed your garden. I should know better than to think it is actually raining at your house just because the radar says it is. Y'all are getting rain just like we did last year....in tiny amounts that scarcely wet the ground, but still are better than no rain at all. I have noticed a lot of my tomato plants are starting to struggle in the heat....and not just in terms of heat stress, but also the appearance of various diseases. It seems to be a pretty bad year for tomato diseases. I've had two that I thought had bacterial wilt, but mostly just Septoria and Early Blight here. I was already thinking Pith Necrosis even before you said it, but then I remember that it is usually cool nights + high humidity that encourage the Pseudonomas corrugata. Also, I often have plants 'outlive' or 'outlast' pith necrosis if I leave in the ground, so it does not necessarily kill the plants. So, even though you've had somewhat cool nights, no one in their right mind could say you've had high humidity there! So, if it isn't pith necrosis, how about Southern Blight? Have you ever had plants with it? When I have a sudden wilt accompanied with almost instantaneous plant death without prior yellowing and a slow decline of the foliage, Southern Blight (Sclerotium rolfsii) is often the cause. You would have seen the brown stem cankers that usually completely girdle the stem at or just above soil level. You might have observed a white fungal spore mat on the lesions and even the little tannish-orange sclerotia on the white spore mat and brown lesions. As dry as it has been there, I think maybe your plant wouldn't have had the white spore mat/orange sclerotia. If you are seeing the brown stem lesions and a white spore mat with black sclerotia instead, it could be Timber Rot. What else causes brown stem lesions? Let's see.....how about Alternaria canker (Alternaria alternata)? The only thing that makes this less likely is that you'll tend to see symptoms of stem, foliage and fruit, and not only on the stem, although I am not sure if it appears on the stem first or last or if it appears on everything all at once. So, what else? You can get brown stem lesions on plants that have severe Early Blight (Alternaria solani) but your plants would have looked sickly with EB on foliage for days or weeks before you'd see stem lesions. (At least that's how it progresses in my garden.) Am I forgetting anything that causes brown lesions on the stems? Oh, Fusariuum Crown Rot (Fusarium oxysporum?). With this one the whole plant browns and dies, but I don't think it is quite as quick as 24 hours, and I think you would have seen yellowing of foliage for at least several days before Fusarium Crown Rot could advance enough to kill a plant. Jay, I don't know that I have come up with anything you did not already consider. In my garden, it most likely would be Southern Blight that caused such a sudden death, and I don't always see the white spore mat until 2 to 3 days after the plant suddently dies. I don't have a lot of experience with Bacterial Wilt, but I think it would have been apparent for several days before you lost the plant. I'm not a very good disease detective because when they die I just yank them out, throw them away and replace them with something else. I don't spend a lot of time studying them, so I probably am weak on stem symptoms, and the only stem diseases I see here tend to be Southern Blight or Pith Necrosis. I think this sounds like a case for Craig or Martin or Fusion or maybe someone at the Tomato Forum like Mulio....you need the opinion of one of the "pros", don't you think? I hope you get some weather relief. Our temps are supposed to be 100+ until at least Wed. so not much hope for improving conditions here. When you figure out what you think it is, I hope you'll let me know so I can learn from this conversation. Whatever it is, I hope it doesn't spread. You know, in May and June the tomato plants look darn near perfect and a long, fruitful season beckons. In late June and all of July, the diseases and pests take hold, along with the terrible heat, and the tomato plant decline begins. Some years, I feel like it is July's purpose in life to try to kill every plant I am trying to grow. Any plants that make it to early August probably get cut back to 2 or 3' and given a chance to regrow for fall. To make it even harder, new diseases keep appearing so you never really figure them all out. (sigh) Chances of rain here are slim to non-existent and I am keeping my in-ground plants on a 4-day watering schedule, which probably isn't enough, but will have to do. The container plants get watered once or twice a day and have almost no disease issues. It is temping to switch all my tomato plants next year to large containers. Dawn...See MoreOops caterpillar question wrong forum MOVED
Comments (4)Susanne, you've got the Latin name turned around....it's Datana major. :-) These busy little pests turn into a rather plain brown moth, sodbuster. But regardless of that fact, if you value your azaleas, you had better get in there and remove those eating machines! They won't sting or bite, so just pick them off and fling them somewhere where your lazy birds can manage to find them....See MoreHaviland France Limoge Covered Veg. Bowl
Comments (6)There are 5-6 Schleiger books which show all of the blanks, and many many patterns. You might find them on Amazon or possibly at a library. Since you know the pattern number, it should be easy to look up. Also, you can look up "Haviland & Co" on the Replacements site, and you might find this pattern. If you do not, you certainly will be able to find the tureen in another pattern. Replacements sells china, so they will state a price. Jackie...See MoreHELP! Am I making an expensive exterior mistake?
Comments (12)Metro, in my area there are several designers who will work with you on an hourly basis. Two that I have used have a storefront, but do mainly custom work. I had a designer come to my house to evaluate and help me with paint color selections. For about $200, she helped me fine-tune selections for four rooms plus my front door paint. It really helped that she saw my home with my light, my brick and roof colors, etc. And she was spot on with her color recommendations, recognizing undertones that I hadn't considered. If you can find a designer like the one I used, it may be worth investing a bit to create a cohesive plan for your exterior....See More- 6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
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