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Re: pepper and tomato questions

Gail, I have had trouble the last couple of years with similar symptoms on
tomato and cucumber plants.  I determined that spider mites had infested the
area.  I tried Sevin with no success last year and wound up pulling the
remnants of the plants by mid summer just when they should have been
producing in high gear.  A local nursery advises kelthane, which I applied
last night.  They are tough to reach because they live on the undersides of
the leaves, and are smaller than the dot at the end of this sentence. I
don't think crowding the plants helps either.


>I have noticed
>several plants seems to be succumbing to what I think is probably a
>fungus (?) as the lower leaves are turning yellow and then die.  I've
>checked a few stalks and no brown inside the stalks, so I think (I hope)
>I can eliminate V or F wilt (?) and since the plants are so close together
>(ok, so I got carried away and planted them way closer than what I should
>have--had I known it would rain so much--it looks like a jungle, literally)
>I think it could very well be a fungal disease (at least the symptoms
>seem the same as what I've read about in my books).  Anyone know what
>I should do?
>Gail, who's mouth is watering just thinking about that cucumber for lunch ;)
>Fenton, MO (Zone 6)  Email: gailk@wupatki.wustl.edu
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Martin Halterman
Duncan, Oklahoma
mhalterman@halnet.com

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