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Re: Problems with garden

At 04:23 PM 12/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Lauren!
>
>1) when you are choosing seeds or picking out plants in the nursery, look 
>for varieties that are disease resistant. Tomatoes will have a list of 
>letters after the variety name, like "Super Sweet 100, VFB" that means 
>that it's resistant to verticulum wilt, black spot and something that 
>begins with F that I can't remember.

"B" must be a new one; i've never seen it before.  The ones i know for sure are:
  V - resistant to Verticillium wilt
  F - resistant to Fusarium wilt
  N - resistant to root knot nematodes
  T - resistant to tobacco mosaic.  Tobacco is in the same family as tomatoes,
      so it's probably not a good idea to smoke around tomato plants.

>2) when you rotate plants in your garden, you have to plan it 
>carefully--tomatoes and eggplants are in the same family (nightshade), so 
>if you had problems with your tomatoes last year and plant eggplants in 
>the same spot this year, the over-wintering fungus will get your eggplant 
>too. Other familes are the brassicas (cauliflower, broccoli, brussel 
>sprouts), beans and peas, winter and summer squashes. I can't remember 
>where peppers fall. Nightshades too? (anybody?)

Peppers are indeed in the nightshade family.

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