Comments on: After Late Blight in a Small Kitchen Garden

By: admin

admin — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:20:24 +0000

Cindy: Well, of course: mold is a fungus. Thanks for encouraging me to revisit 8th grade biology. Perhaps I misunderstood whatever that article about late blight was trying to convey about the organism. So, setting the record straight: Late Blight is mold which makes it a type of fungus. That probably explains why fungicides can be effective in fighting it.

By: Cindy Scott Day

Cindy Scott Day — Sun, 02 May 2010 02:12:17 +0000

But Daniel — mold is a fungus!

Having fought toxic mold in our previous house (and lost), I have an irrational fear of it and any cousins. I’m sure I go overboard, but I’ve decided the stuff is demonic.

By: Micah

Micah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:01:04 +0000

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By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:29:59 +0000

Great post. Lots of good info.

My potatoes got late blight (as did my tomatoes), but the tubers were fine. For prevention of blight next year, I also read that we should all buy seed potatoes – don’t start potatoes from store-bought. I don’t know what assurance that give one, but worth researching.

One interesting thing I found was that my heirloom tomatoes got blight much more quickly than my non-heirlooms, though they all eventually succumbed.