Fellow Hot Heads,
Got a definite type of situation here. I'm starting to lose plants like crazy. They don't even wilt, they just collapse and die. It appears they've been infected with a soil born fungi (either Fusarium or a Verticilium wilt) that I introduced into my pepper patch (4X8 raised bed) when I planted an heirloom tomato (green zebra) there. big mistake. A little more time on the net has informed me these heirloom tomato aren't resistant to these fungi and in effect are carriers. I'll tell you its pretty painful to watch plants you've raised from seed and cared for for over three months, go belly up in 48 hours. I pulled five plants, which were, until very lately, very healthy, all just given up the ghost.
Any fellow pepper pushers dealt with this disaster?
Is the rest of the pepper patch going to follow suit and die?
Anybody have any suggestions or tips for dealing with this?
Thanks in advance, hope everybodys' gardens are going good. or at least better than where mine is headed.
Got a definite type of situation here. I'm starting to lose plants like crazy. They don't even wilt, they just collapse and die. It appears they've been infected with a soil born fungi (either Fusarium or a Verticilium wilt) that I introduced into my pepper patch (4X8 raised bed) when I planted an heirloom tomato (green zebra) there. big mistake. A little more time on the net has informed me these heirloom tomato aren't resistant to these fungi and in effect are carriers. I'll tell you its pretty painful to watch plants you've raised from seed and cared for for over three months, go belly up in 48 hours. I pulled five plants, which were, until very lately, very healthy, all just given up the ghost.
Any fellow pepper pushers dealt with this disaster?
Is the rest of the pepper patch going to follow suit and die?
Anybody have any suggestions or tips for dealing with this?
Thanks in advance, hope everybodys' gardens are going good. or at least better than where mine is headed.