Jim Marrs wrote:

I have just learned about grafting tomato plants. I have a real disease
problem with early blight and understand grafting tomato plants to eggplants
or other rootstock which have a much higher resistance to blight produces
highly resistant tomato plants. Does anyone have any experience with this
technique? I'm going to give it a go this spring so any tips would be
greatly appreciated.

JEM

Dive right in if you'd like. I did this to create a 'pomato' many years
ago (potato root, tomato top). Out of six grafts one took, but it died
before setting either fuit or root. It was fun but I wouldn't call it a
success.

I've had big problems with tomatoes when I've tried to grow them on the
same patch of ground two years running. Rotate your patch, don't
compost dead vines, pull up and dispose of any roots and buy disease
resitant varieties. I know it's anathema but I had nothing but pest and
disease problems until I started disposing of - not recycling - my veg
garden litter. There are plenty of other disease free sources of
organic matter.
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Mike Harris
Austin 78702