Re: late blight

**H*@aol.com**

Well I wrote about late  blight the same week it was  reported to have been 
found at the big box store near Southampton...I called my  editor and said 
she had to stop the presses...at the last minute they got the  information 
into the paper but on the wrong page.  Ok, worse has  happened.  Now I 
haven't grown tomatoes for years but this year I was sent  six plants to trial so 
I set them up in my garden and took very good care of  them.  The plants 
were staked but when they got to six feet had to be re  staked and they were 
loaded with fruits.  The whitefly set in but was  easily controlled when 
sprayed with a pyrethrum spray at dusk.  Not a hint  of septoria or late 
blight....not a hint.  Some of the fruits began to show  signs of a pinkish tint so 
I figured I was only days away from harvest.   You know how the story goes 
from here don't ya?  Late blight right?   Nope...130 year old maple tree 
comes down and destroys the garden on a clear,  windless wonderful summer day.

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener is a  registered trade mark and is published every 
Thursday in The Southampton Press,  The Press and the Easthampton Press

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