Oh Noes! Leaf Spot!
Jun. 2nd, 2010 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluesgardenI really want to craft a long gag about me having a fungal or bacterial infection, but I don't really think my brain is up to that much cleverness today and it would just end up lame, so better to skip it. Anyway, it's my plants that have some variation on bacterial/fungal leaf spot, probably thanks to the ridiculously warm and wet spring we're having - and it's not just the ones I planted, but pretty much anything green and growing. As far as I can determine, it's a minor problem (cosmetic rather than systemic) - unless, say, it keeps raining like it's supposed to do off and on this week. I'm particularly worried about the seedlings as even the wee tiny cucumbers and beans are showing spots.
My plan of attack is copper fungicide. Directions say to use 0.5 to 2.0 fluid ounces in a gallon of water and spray all leaf surfaces, in this case every 7 to 10 days until it clears up and to re-spray after a rain. Like we've had a 7 day stretch of dry weather recently. The tricky part will be actually getting to all the plants despite the extreme sogginess of the garden, as in game show challenge kind of tricky. Gah.
I've included, er, 8 pictures below the cut for educational purposes. *cough* (One picture? What is this concept you speak of?)
One of the pepper plants, where I first saw it. (Forgive some blurriness - the winds are blowing today.)
Off to the side of the garden in the weeds.
Clover - notice the blade of grass behind it is also displaying leaf spot near the top.
More clover and weeds.
Pumpkin (Fairytale, to be precise)
Diva cucumber seedling
Bean, which just came up yesterday.
Tomato plant (a group that is, overall, demonstrating some of the least susceptibility so far, interestingly enough - the watermelons also looked good from what I could tell).
My plan of attack is copper fungicide. Directions say to use 0.5 to 2.0 fluid ounces in a gallon of water and spray all leaf surfaces, in this case every 7 to 10 days until it clears up and to re-spray after a rain. Like we've had a 7 day stretch of dry weather recently. The tricky part will be actually getting to all the plants despite the extreme sogginess of the garden, as in game show challenge kind of tricky. Gah.
I've included, er, 8 pictures below the cut for educational purposes. *cough* (One picture? What is this concept you speak of?)
One of the pepper plants, where I first saw it. (Forgive some blurriness - the winds are blowing today.)
Off to the side of the garden in the weeds.
Clover - notice the blade of grass behind it is also displaying leaf spot near the top.
More clover and weeds.
Pumpkin (Fairytale, to be precise)
Diva cucumber seedling
Bean, which just came up yesterday.
Tomato plant (a group that is, overall, demonstrating some of the least susceptibility so far, interestingly enough - the watermelons also looked good from what I could tell).
