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Re: Blight in Tory's rain-soaked PNW garden

Janet Wintermute wrote:
>
>the scientists mentioned that in some
> cases fungal spores splash UP onto leaves/stems from the soil surface >during
 a hard rain.  I wonder if you couldn't discourage that, routinely, by putting
 Reemay or one of the water-permeable plastic mulch >sheets on top of your soil
 at the beginning of the gardening season and >setting toms out into holes
 you've dut in the material.

You may be onto something, Janet. It might be worth a try. I use plastic
"Miracle Mulch" from Parks Seeds which has many good qualities, but it
does not permit the rain to run off fast enough to avoid the puddles
whence the splashes come. So you can leave that sort of plastic out of
the experiment.
        Ed  Flynn

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