HellfireFarm
eXtreme Business
Last year had some issues with anthracnose setting in, but this year everything is worse.
First, I moved the field and planted in a different area, but something like 95% of my starters failed after transplant. I can't think of anything I did differently than all previous years except maybe planted out a couple weeks later. But within a week everything was gone. Best I can think of is that I got 3 days of heavy rain after planting and maybe they just drowned?
The melon in the same field was doing perfectly fine last Wednesday. Friday, it was shriveled up looking like it had been dead for a week.
12 days later, the cayennes that I planted in the field, to try to save something - none have peeked through at all. I planted about 150 seeds.
The tomatoes in the garden beds, which I rotate regularly and didn't have issues last year, picked up early blight. Early Girls first - they're all but gone. The grape tomato variety next to them is starting do fade, and the Beefmaster's clear on the other side are starting to show blight.
And the peppers in the garden beds are showing anthracnose lesions.
I'm not sure what's left to do. Whatever's going on, it seems systemic in my area, whether its soil or airborne, or something else. The fungicide treatments don't seem to be helping (and I researched exactly which to use). I'm getting worried that my field and garden are no longer able to sustain what I grow, and I'm not sure what to change to fix it.
Its becoming rather depressing
First, I moved the field and planted in a different area, but something like 95% of my starters failed after transplant. I can't think of anything I did differently than all previous years except maybe planted out a couple weeks later. But within a week everything was gone. Best I can think of is that I got 3 days of heavy rain after planting and maybe they just drowned?
The melon in the same field was doing perfectly fine last Wednesday. Friday, it was shriveled up looking like it had been dead for a week.
12 days later, the cayennes that I planted in the field, to try to save something - none have peeked through at all. I planted about 150 seeds.
The tomatoes in the garden beds, which I rotate regularly and didn't have issues last year, picked up early blight. Early Girls first - they're all but gone. The grape tomato variety next to them is starting do fade, and the Beefmaster's clear on the other side are starting to show blight.
And the peppers in the garden beds are showing anthracnose lesions.
I'm not sure what's left to do. Whatever's going on, it seems systemic in my area, whether its soil or airborne, or something else. The fungicide treatments don't seem to be helping (and I researched exactly which to use). I'm getting worried that my field and garden are no longer able to sustain what I grow, and I'm not sure what to change to fix it.
Its becoming rather depressing
