Re: CULT: leaf spot?

Leaf spot also spreads rapidly by "rain splash" from infected ground onto
the leaves.

John

On 3/26/03 2:03 PM, "Mike Greenfield" <redear@infinet.com> wrote:

> Hi humidity I think is the main cause of leaf spot spreading. Rain =
> humidity.  Putting a layer of sand might help. If you put a layer every time
> you plant it will not be long until you have soil that is too sandy.
> Removing it every time would be a big chore. I used the sand to help frost
> heave for two years in a row. I still had some leaf spot the next year. I
> put it on in late summer. My raised beds drain too fast now.
> 
> Mike Greenfield
> SW Ohio Zone 5b
> 
> From: "Judy Hunt"
> 
> 
> 
>> Linda Mann said:
>> <Does anybody know if there are nutritional
>>  deficiencies associated with plant vigor that are directly related to
>>  resisting leaf spot?  These rows are more sandy than the main gravelly
>>  beds.>
>> 
>> Linda, I don't know about nutritional deficiencies, but from experience
> have
>> found that clumps in beds with lots of weeds seem to be much more
> resistant
>> to leaf spot than those in "clean" beds.  The soil is not splashed on them
>> from rain storms. For the past two or three years, we have talked about
>> putting a "mulch" of very coarse, gravelly sand on all our bearded beds.
>> Maybe this will be the year we get it done!  We think that might help in
>> much the same way that the weeds do.  Anyone else have experience with
> that?
>> 
>> Judy Hunt in Louisville, KY, Zone 6
>> 
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