The Hot Pepper

Dang maters sure are sensitive my man !!!!

Leaf spot?

Yep, leaf spot, blight or something. It started with just 2 of them, but almost all show it now. I put maters in 4 different spots this year so they wouldn't all touch each other, didn't seem to matter. Last night I noticed one was suddenly a foot shorter, kinda collapsed on main stem so it might have something that weakened it.

That sucks. It's hard to grow a garden under water. I really need to get a batch of compost tea on my tomatoes before they succumb to SLS.

July 8 and its not even going to be 60 today. This sucks. Heavier rains on the way after an all day soaking, still coming down. The tomatoes might be the septoria like you linked above or might be blight. Probably both with my luck. Too late to do anything now. I hate that antifungal stuff but might need to use some from day one next year, maybe itll help, probably not.

July 8 and its not even going to be 60 today. This sucks. Heavier rains on the way after an all day soaking, still coming down. The tomatoes might be the septoria like you linked above or might be blight. Probably both with my luck. Too late to do anything now. I hate that antifungal stuff but might need to use some from day one next year, maybe itll help, probably not.

Have you tried peroxide? I've seen a few people on YT use peroxide to combat fungal diseases on tomatoes and peppers

No, haven't tried it. I meant to on a pepper that looks sick and haven't gotten aound to that yet. Problem with the tomatoes is they are so damn big now most are 5ft+, getting everything treated is almost impossible. Next year I just have to plan for torrential rain again I guess and start treating right after I plant them maybe. Oh well, I might get a few still.

I grow 7 heirlooms each year. All of them are grown in those big Rubbermaid Roughneck containers. That way I can drag them in the garage during bad storms or prolonged rain. It's a pain in the ass when the get to be about 7' but I got tired of growing them in the ground and coming out after every storm and having a tangled mess of plant and cage to fix. They grown great too just have to fertilize a bit more often

raining here still , last night 52 degrees , high60 today ! not good pepper growing weather .

I might have to do the container thing some time. Just don't like messing with them. What I really would like is a tunnel, but then we'd probably have a storm destroy it. Oh well. Hopefully the peppers keep going strong, damn cold out now. Been raining non stop for last 18 hours, but looks like it will be over in the next 2 or so.