RE: Rain rain, move to where you're needed

That can't be good. I hadn't heard about that one before, hope I don't get
unlucky with it - I try to grow a lot of sweet basil. I'm not as fond of the
other types. 

Cyndi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: 7/3/2006 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain rain, move to where you're needed

It may be that you got some infected seed, since it's the Sweet Basil
that 
disappeared.  Even the tested seed isn't 100% safe, I'm told.

d


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MICHAEL HABIB" <godihabib@verizon.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain rain, move to where you're needed


> Daryl,
> Thanks for the info. I have Asian basil and sweet basil in one large
pot. 
> The Asian is growing like mad, the sweet already disappeared. I have
never 
> had this problem with sweet basil, I also was late planting this year.

> Usually I plant at beginning April. I might have avoided all this by 
> planting earlier so the basil would have had a good root system before
the 
> deluge.
> Godi zone 7
> Mt. Vernon, VA
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 7:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain rain, move to where you're needed
>
>
>> Oooh, you *are lucky. You must have really good drainage in your
garden 
>> beds.
>>
>> With regard to the basil- if you lose all of the leaves, check for
wilt. 
>> It's a fairly new fungus that's taken out a lot of fields here, 
>> especially in wet spells.
>>
>> Here's a bit from NCSU. "A devastating basil wilt disease caused by a

>> soilborne pathogenic fungus, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. basilicum, was

>> first discovered in the U.S. in 1991 and identified in N.C. in 1992. 
>> Plants infected with this disease usually grow normally until they
are 
>> six to twelve inches tall, then they become stunted and suddenly
wilt. 
>> Initial symptoms usually include brown streaks on the stems, 
>> discoloration of the internal stem tissue, and sudden leaf drop. 
>> Interestingly, only sweet basil is affected. Some of the specialty 
>> basils, such as lemon basil and purple basil, show some resistance to
the 
>> disease"
>>
>> I gave up growing Basil because of it. I apparently got some infected

>> seeds and it wrecked the bed that I used for Basil.
>>
>> d

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