Hello bdank, It's nice to know you are born on Nov. 1 and you live in the United States, but it would also help if you revealed your geographical location quite specifically. Nobody's gonna bite you. Geography has everything to do with pathogens... and plant maintenance. And it works both ways. Give a little, and get a little. The rest of us also like to learn from your postings. Hence my personal disappointment in your lack of specificity in location. Here in slightly-inland coastal so california, I never spray for early blight... after some 15 years. I just cull the leaves so afflicted on a casual routine basis. I thought I saw late blight on one prized plant, lately... a much more frightful prospect... and I removed the plant entirely. Well, "lots of things" might have explained those dark lesions on my stems, I was told... but I was taking no chances. Early onset of late blight is a plague... and has wrought havoc in may eastern USA locations... so I heard... in 2009. I believe in "chemical warfare," too. Had my own chem lab as a 11 year old, for that matter. Could have blown my face off. But I didn't. My point is that chemicals have their place. And so does abstinence therefrom. Chemicals are both overrated and underrated. I wouldn't trust the best chemicals to protect my other plants from the spread of late blight. But I wouldn't bother with any chemicals at all for early blight. I also value the opinions of other long-time contributors, like Dr. Carolyn... who has dedicated her career... not just an avocation... to tomatoes and botany. Dr. Carolyn lives in a very different (eastern) climate than I do, however. Different remedies typically apply, based on geography. John

Oh goodness no! I don't blame my neighbor at all in any way! How could he have known? The affects of RU drifting on the wind never would've occurred to me had I not found this forum and happen to read up on it. Heck, my boyfriend - the guy I live with - was ready to go buy some to use.... he even put up a fuss with me when I told him no. haha.... he's the one that needs more training... haha. Besides, the affected plants are growing up against his fence, he probably just sprayed a patch along the fence... how could he have even thought that his spray would come over an affect my plants?.... goodness no, I don't blame him one bit. He is indeed a very good neighbor, and a wonderful person. I haven't even asked him any details about his spraying RU because he was so embarrassed when he learned. He adores our garden, and lives to share in our harvest, and is the first to offer help. Goodness, I use his fence as part of my trellis at this point too. If he weren't as cool as he his, I'd have to top my plants at this point, they're all hanging over his fence now. Dave, yes, I've got lots of growth and plenty of good green, its just really stunted looking... very very leggy, thin, limp, not curly on top though, just limp looking.... branches die quickly on these plants however, they brown up from the tips and just die slowly all the way up. I ought to get some picts I reckon. Thank you so much too for the tip on picking fruit at first blush... thats exactly what I've been doing... I figured as soon as fruit showed any signs of blushing that the gel inside should be complete and to pick it to ease the stressed plant. I've been on top of that (well, that , and I'm going nuts waiting for fruit to ripen, so at least I get to pick something). Hoosier, thank you sooo much for going through the trouble for me to get the RU label. The incident must've happened about 6+ weeks ago as thats when I first noticed the damage, small fruit was just being made at that point, right now, everything is getting close to blushing, or just blushing... I'll read up and see if the fruit is safe for consumption or not. thanks all for being quick to offer advice!!!!

If you use lisa_a's with 2 entrances to the pantry it may just vent itself easily as I'd imagine the pocket entry door to it from the garage may stay open or ajar frequently. You could possibly fit it in the bump back to match the entrance stairs. Fridges in garages are pretty common around here but we have more issues with freezing temps than overly hot. Otherwise I'd put it in that spot in the garage where the writing says small appliances for inside the kitchen. That's not far of a walk at all.

OK, I'm game to start... Your soil test results show that there has been way too much unnecessary fertilising going on in your gardens. You say "Mom used to spend a lot of money on miracle grow garden soil and some kind of rose fertilizer. She would just give that to (every) thing growing in the yard." And " I figured the bottle brush was needing some too, so i poured about 2 or 3 pounds of epsom salt around the tree and waited." There's really no reason for you to throw around fertilisers willy-nilly, without knowing the reason for it. For your bottle-brush (Callistemon) specifically, they hate pretty much ANY fertiliser, but especially phosphorous, which will kill them dead. And your soil test indicates very high levels of phosphorous. Personally, I'd cut that plant down to about 6" high and see if it re-sprouts. They survive this treatment very well and grow back big and fast. (Unless it's already past the point of saving.) In the meantime, I'd stop using any bought chemical fertilisers and continue with what you're doing now, just adding leaf mulch, compost and maybe a light dusting of blood/bone meal. Then, in a year or so, get another soil test done for comparison with this one.