Thanks for your advise. I have tried the rotation technique and practice it
as much as possible and don't ever compost my old tomato plants. I grow so
much in my limited space, I believe that short of replacing all my soil (I
am actually considering do it) there are so many sources of blight, that
the battle seems hopeless. Developing more resistant plants seems like it
may be the best alternative. It will be a fun experiment even if most of my
grafts fail. I have already purchased the little clips used for the process.
I am going to wait just a little longer for the weather to warm up. I have a
small greenhouse but I don't enjoy the expense of maintaining 70-85 degrees
24-7.

JEM

"harriswest" wrote in message
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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