0tterbot wrote:
"PatC" wrote in message
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Please
any advice please - see earlier replies to other posts



hello pat,
don't know if this will help you but i read something interesting today in a
slightly old gardening australia magazine: when the plants get to be 1/3
metre high and as thick as your little finger (or mine, or someone's ;-)
push a short piece of copper wire through the stalk near the ground, and
your tomatoes will be "disease free".

i can't believe it's _quite_ as easy as all that, but pete c. speculated
that the copper is taken up & prevents fungal diseases (so there's part of
the battle). certainly worth experimenting with if nothing is working &
nothing left to lose!
kylie


Yep that could work. Remember seeing something like this for lemons as well.
Wouldnt be sure though...You can bet some of australias commercial
tomato growers have something up their sleeves, even if its flwoers of
sulphur and regular dusting or this trick..