Opalka tomato's Lots of rain and high humidity for several weeks. I had thought that the inches of woodchips used as a mulch would have saved me from the blasted early/late blight. I had forgotten that the spores can be carried for miles on the wind. I've been out pruning like a madman for a couple of hours and decided on a water break. Last fall, I had 2 truck loads of woodchips dumped on my garden, I spread them over the entire garden with depth ranging from 3 to 5 inches. Thought I had beaten soil born fungus like blight, I did! Everything is growing wonderfully and I look forward to some tremendous cabbage, onions, peppers, cukes, and hopefully tomato's. About those Opalka tomato's. They are a Polish Heirloom, very fragile looking plant with long, almost vining leaf stems. Not a heavy leaf cover either. They are more sturdy than they look though, but just. These require staking/cages to help keep them upright. These seem especially susceptible to the blight, the ones pruned earlier appear to be recovering nicely. I'll have more to report later, I have fruit hanging, just waiting for it to ripen. If I weren't such a technofail, I would post some photo's, but alas...................
