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| Trouble in Tomato City |
I told you I'd be honest, and report all my failures as well as success. We just hit our first problem of the season.
Note the pinholes in my babies' leaves.
I took a sample over to Dick Broussard, GM at Wells Brothers in Plano.
"You got bugs," he said elegantly.
He suggests a homemade concoction of soaking tobacco of any form in a liter or so of soda pop, the sugary stuff. Let it sit for a day or so, then strain out the tobacco, and spray it on the plants.
"The sugar in the soda will attract them, and the tobacco is a deadly neurotoxin."
I'll give it a try.
It's been a sketchy spring here in North Texas since I put in tomato seedlings a few weeks ago. Late frosts, then temps zooming up to the high 80's yesterday. Wet sometimes, dry others.
One or two of my seedlings show brown tips on the leaves, a possible sign of some kind of fungus or blight. Hopefully consistent sunny days will kill the bad, grow the good.
Richard also showed me a great sight for self-diagnosis. http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/vegetable/tomato-problem-solver/leaves/ But like a hypochondriac, I think I have every disease known to man, farmer or gardener.
But it's a great site.
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