help with blight please

sheeshshe · Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:18 pm

also, before I spray again here... I"m going to have to chop chop chop again even though I just chopped 2 days ago

its sad. there is barely anything left to chop

my poor plants!

SPierce · Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:15 pm

No advice to offer, but I feel horrible you're having such a hard time this year

Gary350 · Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:39 pm

Dissolve 1 tablespoon of copper sulfate with 2 tablespoons of lime in 1 gallon of water. Spray your tomato plants 2 or 3 times every week. This will stop it from spreading. Cut off the blight infected parts of your plants.

sheeshshe · Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:43 pm

and my sprayer is not cooperating.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Black River · Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:34 pm

Shee, I've been fighting blight this year also, first on potatoes, now on tomatoes and peppers. I bought the Daconil liquid spayer mix and sprayed very thouroughly. It took me two evenings to spray 95 plants, and I probably used 5-6 sprayer fulls. I covered the leaves until there was a little of the whitish substance left on them. So far after one time spraying, it seems to have stopped it for the most part. The peppers made a total turnaround after one application. That was a week ago, and we've had rain every day for the last two-three days so I will re-apply the Daconil this weekend. That's the darndest part of it all, last year I couldn't get enough water on the garden, this year it's too much! Sure would be nice to have a normal year every now and then!

You might need to buy a new sprayer, I just used a gallon size plastic cheapie one from Wal-mart. I wasn't sure what I had put in the one I had, so I didn't take a chance.

So, I think I saved the plants, but now I think I will have to fence the garden to keep the chickens from eating the 'maters! Good luck!

sheeshshe · Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:09 pm

I haven't had the chance to finish spraying. rr. the next night it rained. the next night I didnt have help as I was alone, and tonight was birthday celebration food for my DH. I hope to finish spraying tomororw. the tomatoes seem to be doing ok so far, but the potatoes are not doing hot. they're doing worse now. hopefully the sprayer works. I tried soaking the spraying element. I jut bought the thing last year.