Looks like we're finally starting to get internet access, just in time for a tomato crisis. It's strange, there is so much going well in this garden. We are having a bumper crop of pickling and standard cucumbers. The cherry tomatoes are, indeed, large, juicy and delicious. The pumpkins are running rampant, although one cannot tell how many pumpkins the jungle will yield.Yesterday I noticed that a few beefsteak tomatoes had ripened and had lesions on them, which I believe
to be Alternaria Canker. The first picture comes from aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu. The following picture is one I took of the suspect Beefsteak. What I am learning is that tomatoes can be infected very early. Very often the blemish or disease does not become apparent until the fruit ripens. For example, stink bugs, which thrive in weeds, can eat the green tomatoes, and only once the fruit is in its mature/ripening stage will one be able to see the true horror. The Tomato Problem Solver Site suggests that we spray a fungicide on the crop.... Any one out there have any ideas?
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