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Welcome to Around the Homestead podcast, where we share information on topics from gardens to goats,

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Now here are host Brad McGinley and Shaun Rhoades. Well, hello and welcome to our latest edition of the Around the Homestead podcast.

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I'm your co-host, Brad McGinley. I've got my fellow county extension agent and co-host Shaun Rhodes's.

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He's over in Scott County. How's the garden looking, Shaun? Well, it's starting to look a little bit better, actually, a little bit warmer weather.

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I can't say that it's drier, though, but the warm weather has helped the gardening so far this year.

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But it does seem that everybody is quite quiet, late with the most of their gardening.

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Yeah, I would agree. It's same here in Grant County and central Arkansas.

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We've had so much wet weather, it's certainly hampered everybody getting their garden and for the year.

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But that's what we want to talk about today, because, you know, the one of the well,

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I would say the the most common question we get is county extension agent this time of year pertains to tomatoes.

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Everybody wants to grow a tomato and everybody always has their fair share of tomato issues throughout the growing season.

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And we want to address some of these tomato issues today.

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And, you know, the most common issue that we see in the office, Shaun, and I always get this call, is I've got blight on my tomatoes.

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And what do I do about it? Yeah, right. You hear that.

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Hear that described in various different ways. You always kind of know it's probably all the same thing.

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But I have always heard people say they far from the bottom up,

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you hear that a lot turning yellow at the bottom and it's going through it, killing all the leaves.

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Those are indicative of fungal problems most of the time this time of year and just a little bit on its early blight, as you said, and.

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So that that is something that has to be addressed. It is one thing that I have found.

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That is just almost impossible to go through a season of growing tomatoes without that issue coming up,

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unless you take precautionary measures throughout the growing season.

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Yeah, you know, that's the old saying is what is in an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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And that's certainly the case in this situation. And so what would be your recommendation for helping solve some of that early blight issue early on?

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You know, I guess the first thing just kind of off key here is no overhead irrigation,

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for one thing, you know, don't be don't be sprinkling your tomatoes.

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Don't be spraying them with water hose every day.

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Have some type of drip soaker hose or something like that as far as irrigation might go now.

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That could be a that's kind of a preventative thing that will help you some.

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But as you get on into it and even as you do some of those things, our humidity is just going to lend

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Enough moisture for those those fungal problems to arise and.

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As I do, like you say, the only preventative measure.

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That will work is a regular routine of fungicide applications to your to your plants, Brad.

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Yeah, you know, well, you know, we get a lot of times we'll get, you know,

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samples bring into the office and we'll all get a picture, email or text message to us.

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And, you know, we can pretty much identify that it is probably early blight because lack of

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the some of the symptoms you said earlier plant start down from the bottom up.

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The leaves have, you know, yellowing. You've got some you know, some some spots on the leaves as well.

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But, you know, we can recommend, you know, back anneal or the active ingredient.

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As for vinyl, that will help some of the new growth, but it's not going to solve the problem of what's already diseased.

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So anything that you can do to help prevent spread of disease in the garden will certainly help prevent that moving forward overhead.

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Irrigation is you know, we can't help mother when Mother Nature makes it rain on us.

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We enjoy the rain, especially, you know, midsummer. But if we can avoid that overhead irrigation this time of the year, that that will certainly help.

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You know, another issue that we see a lot of times, Sean, later in the season,

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as the as you know, as the tomatoes, the fruit is already starting to develop is blossom-end rot.

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Right. Yeah, yeah, you'll get that call every year, you can count on it and.

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I have seen this be a problem, I've seen this be a problem, then it just go away as soon as it came with people.

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And it is really a. A physiological condition, it's actually not a virus or a bacterial type pathogen that's doing the blossoming right.

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But when your tomatoes start getting ripe and they rot at the bottom, everybody will say,

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well, they're just about to get right at the bottom and they're not any good.

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This is blossom-end rot. And it is caused by the plant being in a state that it cannot take up enough calcium.

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And this can a lot of time just from an even watering and even moisture levels on those plants.

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Let's say it's being, you know, if you're safe, you're not irrigating and you're just got them in the garden.

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And it's been dry for a while. Most tomatoes were makin git and it hadn't rained in a couple of weeks.

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And then you get a big rain. You're almost guaranteed to see a thing end because of that uneven watering.

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I see a lot of people had trouble with it in containers because a container doesn't

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hold enough moisture and you have a lot of uneven moisture levels in that soil.

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So throughout the day even and that will that will lead to a lot of blossoming rot also.

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Of course, some of those are cures for it, are you having enough calcium in your soul when you plant, you know,

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checking your P.H. and your calcium levels with a soil test and make sure you've got plenty of calcium, but.

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Even if you got plenty, if you get into some big, moisture swings, you will still see it,

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but most of the time it will go away after the first little flush there and everything

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evens out and the plant catches up and you start seeing good tomatoes coming afterwards.

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Yeah, yeah. And a lot of times also get questions about, you know, there are some products, liquid calcium products.

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They stop rots. I've never had just a whole lot of luck with those because a lot of times we're in a situation where we just can't get the plant,

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just can't get enough calcium. What's your experience with those, Shaun? Yeah, yeah.

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You see a lot of them. A lot of people think it's going to help.

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I tell them just hold on, you know, do a little lime work is going to help you more in the long run.

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A little more calcium work in your soil. I just don't know.

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Enough can go in foliarly, you know, from those sprays to really do much good.

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Yeah, yeah. That's been my experience as well. You know, another thing here, Shaun, is especially this time of the year,

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people are kind of getting their plants in the ground and they're starting to grow pretty good.

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Well, we see every year we we always see herbicide injuries every year, it's always going to happen.

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We get two, three, four calls a year. But about herbicide injury and it's a it's a big thing.

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You know, using manure in your garden is great,

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but you need to really know where your source of manure is coming from because it can really cause you some problems.

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Yeah, yeah, come to think of it, those things are growing fast now, and this is the time it starts showing up and.

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If you see if you've used manures and you see your plants start twisting up, especially on the new growth and those leaves start looking distorted.

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You need to start suspecting some herbicide injury. Again, I guess it's a disease in a way, but it's it's more it's physiological.

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Again, it's not caused by any pathogens it's caused from that injury that you're getting from carry over in manures or hay or something like that,

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you know, also and this is the time of year we start saying these tomatoes come and.

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They want to know what's wrong with them and they can't figure it out, you know,

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it's always that they don't nobody can ever admit that they had some injury from using some glyphosate or something around the fencerow

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or around the edge of the sidewalk or something like that around you start seeing that type of herbicide injury this time of year also.

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Yeah, that's my first question. When the wife brings the plant into the office and says, what's wrong with my tomato plants?

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And then I get asking a question or two. And I said, Have you sprayed anything?

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Well, my husband might have sprayed something. And then she goes home and comes back.

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Well, yeah, he did spray something. And, you know, she's not very happy with him because of that issue.

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But I've seen that happen more than once. But, yeah, that's a good point.

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You know, I've always said that you could walk past a tomato plant with an unopened jar of

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24D and it would just automatically wilt just because it was in the vicinity.

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So those are all issues. Her tomato plants are extremely sensitive to those herbicides.

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So what we're talking about in the manure, what happens is, is whenever the cattle producer,

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the hay producer uses a herbicide usually sprays on p+D. It's a the great herbicide, we recommend it a lot.

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But it has a great the reason it works is it has a really good residual.

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And so when the animal consumes that hay that's been sprayed with graze on, it passes directly through the animal, comes out of the manure.

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And whenever you use that manure or hay in that in your garden, that herbicide residual is in there.

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And if you till that manure into your garden, into your garden soil and then plant directly in that,

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you're going to get some herbicide damage, particularly to tomatoes, peppers, those kinds of plants.

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So just be real cautious about using manure's in your garden.

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Just make sure you know the source that it's coming from, because it can really cause you some some headaches in the long run with that issue.

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And like I had said in our first podcast, Brad, nobody ever wants to admit that they did it to themselves.

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Yeah, in these herbicide injury type cases.

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But I've I've walked around a lot of gardens with them, like one that I didn't know, you know, that wouldn't have done that or, you know.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It kind of has to soak in for a day or two.

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Yeah it does.

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And, you know, I feel I've went out and made some visits and looked at some gardens before and I felt really bad for the people because, you know,

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they've tilled that manure into their soil and, you know, it's going to be there and cause them some trouble for for several years to come.

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And the only solution to that is to plant crops that are not sensitive to it or are moved to a different spot until it kind of goes away.

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And sometimes that's not always an option.

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So. But anyways, some other issues that we see a lot of times are spider mites,

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Spider mites seems to be pretty popular, particularly when we have long dry spells.

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A lot of times we get a good hard rain. It'll wash them off a lot of times.

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But if you get some spider mites, you look like little small spiders is basically what they are.

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They'll make little webs in there, you know, a good spray of water that some insecticidal soap will usually wipe those out.

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But I tell you what always gets me, Shaun, is the tomato hornworm.

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Inevitably, every year I'll walk out there in the garden and I'll have a tomato plant that's been completely stripped because of a tomato horn.

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Yeah, he's a he's just camoflauge little dude that sits there and grows.

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And you don't know he's there until he gets big and he gets big overnight.

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It seemed like he pretty well eats half of it, I am saying.

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And even when they're big, they're hard to see.

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You've got to really stand there and look to see them on the stem, but you do need to keep an eye out for them and keep those pictures of.

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If you have so, you know, you sit there for five minutes before staring at that plan, I know that that dude is there.

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I can see, you know, I can see where he's being, but I can't I can't find him.

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But when you do get him, if you take him to the chicken pen, those chickens, like those tomato hornworms.

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They'll carry them around and chase each other around with them. They're like a trophy.

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So but anyways. But, yeah, tomato hornworm are certainly an issue.

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You might the easiest way to just pick those off and Shaun's going talk a little bit about a spray schedule later on in the.

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In the podcast here that'll help prevent some of these other things, you know, something else that that, you know,

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a lot of times we get asked about my tomato plants look really good, but I don't have any tomatoes on them particular.

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Happens after the temperature warms up there in the middle of the summer, gets hot.

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And, you know, once those nighttime temperatures get up to the mid 70s and the day time temperatures get up to the,

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you know, above ninety five, those plants really kind of start shutting down on fruit production.

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Shaun. Yes, once the nighttime temperatures get that warm, they they will quit setting their blossoms.

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Call it blossom drop, poor fruit, say whatever you want to call it, like it, they'll bloom,

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they'll keep blooming, but those blooms never materialize into little tomatoes and.

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The major reason is it's too hot, it's too hot at night and not much you can do about that one, but it does come up most of the time.

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A lot of people kind of get a little bit concerned about it.

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You know, that's you're going to see it more on some of these in determinates that people keep it alive,

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you know, all year, tomatoes also you'll see it on.

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Some of your late-planted tomato plants that bloom in that time doing the majority of their bloom and they're in the heat of the summer there in July.

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I don't know. I mean, there's really not much you can do about that one, but plant them early, you know, early enough that they make most of their

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tomatoes or have them set before then or after.

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You know, that's why we see a lot of people grow their late  tomatoes, they will plant them about the 1st of July.

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And hopefully they'll be blooming later in the month towards Aug when the nighttime's usually cool off some.

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Yeah. There are some varieties, some other varieties, maybe some particular varieties might be a little bit more tolerant of those,

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those a little bit warmer temperatures, but it's about there's really nothing you can do when those situations happen.

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Some other issues that we see, you know, fruit cracking. A lot of times we see fruit cracking.

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That's usually caused by the same issue.

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We see blossom end rot in. You know, inconsistent watering can also lead to that.

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And there is a variety of other all kinds of different tomato diseases out there that we could get into.

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But bacterial Speck's, the bacterial wilt's a lot of some leaf spots, southern blot.

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There's there's there's a lot of those out there.

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But we're not going to go into detail on each one of those.

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But we would encourage you to contact your local county extension office, you know, get with them,

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bring them a plant sample down there, and they can usually help diagnose whatever issue that you're having.

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A lot of times we can even diagnose over the you know, if you can't make it to the office, you can usually diagnose it over a photo.

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If you can email or text a photo, we usually can diagnose there.

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And if we can't diagnose it in the office,

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we have the plant disease clinic located in Fayetteville and we can submit that sample either digitally or physical sample.

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We can mail a physical sample to the lab and we can get your diagnosis because with any kind of issue like this,

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it's always important to know what your pest is before we can make an accurate recommendation.

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And in sending those off to the plant disease lab is a completely free service.

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And it's something that we're happy to do for you. So be sure and take advantage of that.

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You know, Shaun, we alluded to a little bit about some of the herbicides or fungicides that we could use to control some of these issues, but.

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What would be your recommendation as far as a spray schedule would go,

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as far as the spray schedule on, you know, how to prevent some of these issues from happening?

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OK, you know, first thing you make me think of something there.

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One one thing that we do know when we're planting tomatoes is,

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is we we are planting varieties nowadays that are resistant to a lot of these other things that we were talking about can happen.

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So I think everybody needs to realize that you're modern.

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A lot of your modern day varieties will be resistant to a lot of those wilts.

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That can happen, and I think that's also where a lot of people, you know,

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growing heirlooms is very popular nowadays and sometimes you're liable to see more stuff happen to them because,

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you know, they don't have that resistant that some of these newer varieties do.

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Brad, and. We ah...

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We just need to know that and up front that it can be an issue when you're growing heirlooms.

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I'm a great fan of heirlooms. I like eating them, but they can't have more disease pressure on them as far as spraying goes with any of them.

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Yes, you need to start that spraying schedule at planning and it needs to be a combination of alternate and some products throughout.

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The spring and early summer there, you know, we used to start off with a copper and use it.

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And some of those and alternate them throughout the spring, about every 10 days,

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10 to 14 days, unless it comes a big rain, then you kind of start from day zero again.

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As far as the fungicides go and as we move closer to harvest, once you get some pretty good size,

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The old back, a nail. It has a. Smaller harvest date from the time it was tried to win and you can harvest, so.

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We go to it then and also on the insecticide side,

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you can add some Balaton over every two or three sprayings to help with some aphids and things like that.

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But like I say, the key is making a commitment that you're going to go spray those over over two weeks to 10 days.

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That's that's really all it takes. And just change the look that you get on our website.

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You can find tomatoes on there and find a lot of info on this.

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We're not going to get in the weeds on products here today.

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But the key is, is to make sure you've got a plan and you stick to it and you'll you'll reap the benefits of that with your promoters.

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Yeah, you mentioned our website.

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Shaun, we have a wealth of information is on on this particular issue and a lot of other gardening topics on our website.

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That website is uaex.uada.edu

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You click on Cooperative Extension Service and take you directly to our extension web page.

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And there's a wealth of information.

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Also, if you if you're listing if you want if you listen in through the Web, our Web page or around the Homestead podcast Web page,

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we'll link some of that information on our Around the Homestead podcast web page as well.

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Because I'm looking at right now, I'm looking at on our website,

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we have a tomato disease symptom image library where you can get on there and you can look at these diseases and see what they look like.

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And in kind of I'll tell you what what the cause is and what the treatment is on those.

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So it's a great resource. So we encourage you to take advantage of that.

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I guess one final point that Sean pointed out. You know, as you're you know, you've probably if you're listening to this podcast this time of year,

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it's like my you've probably already planted your tinnitus already.

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The variety selection is key and very important when we're talking about, you know,

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putting plants in the ground, whether it be tomatoes or whatever kind of thing you're growing in.

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The garden variety selection is is really important.

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But again, we encourage you if you have intimate issues or any garden issues in general, please contact your local county extension agent.

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Then be glad to help you. This kind of wraps up our issues, our episode for today on Around the Homestead.

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We hope that we wish you success. And the Garden will be coming to you next week with another episode.

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And we hope that you'll we'll check our previous episodes out on our Web page.

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We'll see you in the gardne. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Around the Homestead podcast to learn more about today's topic.

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