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Funny, I thought Joel Salatin had already solved this problem for any
who had 2 smarts to rub together. I guess this is just another example
of the knuckle draggers privatizing the profits and socializing the
costs.
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merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.


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 Same can be said for other human industries.  Medical care once benign
now driven by profit.  Seems the fundamental architecture just grew into
this inhumane innature  circus.  Yea I know not a word innature I just
created it.
 So what redemption can we nourish.  I'd say fall back to china .  When
the individual is well the family is well and the community is well and
the nation is well.  Lots of work but good work.

 "Good work " by Gary Snyder

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Even with chemicals, if it rains, you're screwed. Otherwise, train and
trim tomato vine so that it is open to sun and drying winds.
--
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.


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I noticed chemicals give me one/two weeks of protection, rain or not,
it must kill all the fungus/spores on contact as I notice the blight
stops immediately, I guess the spores take a week or so to gather up
their numbers and take hold again

 

General Schvantzkoph wrote:

I grew Legend last year and was not impressed -- although the weather
was so bad for tomatoes and peppers it might not have been a fair
test.  The few fruit that I got tasted good, but the plants were
eat-up with blight just like any other tomato, and the yield was not
all that good.  However I also grew some Porter tomatoes and those
plants were big and healthy (they have no particular resistances, but
were bred to tolerate poor weather.)  So I'll probably plant the
Porters again this year, and maybe a few Better Boys.  Go back to what
works.

Giving the plants lots of nitrogen early in the season so they grow
big and lush seems to help.  Then stop with the N once they start
blooming.

Or you can just plant tomatillos instead of tomatoes. ;-)

Bob