In article ,
Bob Hobden wrote:

A good example of that is a neighbour at home who still has a superb row of
tomatoes out in his garden covered in fruit and no sign of blight (or
Bordeaux Mixture). Yet on our allotments a mile or so away I am the only one
with any tomato plants still alive (just) everyone else lost theirs months
ago.

I have exactly the same problem. My problems with spraing and
eelworm are explicable, but I have not the slightest idea why my
garden is a blight trap.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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In article ,
Bob Hobden wrote:

A good example of that is a neighbour at home who still has a superb
row of tomatoes out in his garden covered in fruit and no sign of
blight (or Bordeaux Mixture). Yet on our allotments a mile or so away
I am the only one with any tomato plants still alive (just) everyone
else lost theirs months ago.

I have exactly the same problem. My problems with spraing and
eelworm are explicable, but I have not the slightest idea why my
garden is a blight trap.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


I wonder if a gardener can pick up and carry/transmit spores, disease or
parasites and such on their clothing or even on the bodyhair, and carry
them to the garden. Sort of cross contamination. The reason why I wonder
about this is because my vegetable garden is the only one I know of for
a mile or two, and I keep on getting different pests and diseases year
after year. This year it is the gooseberries, which have been here in
this garden for 40 years(so I am told) without any problems.
Then comes mildew 3 years ago and this year sawfly. I havn't been able
to grow any veg this year, but next year I know that there will be some
insect or infestation to burst my balloon.

Baz

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I wonder if a gardener can pick up and carry/transmit spores, disease or
parasites and such on their clothing or even on the bodyhair, and carry
them to the garden. Sort of cross contamination. The reason why I wonder
about this is because my vegetable garden is the only one I know of for
a mile or two, and I keep on getting different pests and diseases year
after year. This year it is the gooseberries, which have been here in
this garden for 40 years(so I am told) without any problems.
Then comes mildew 3 years ago and this year sawfly. I havn't been able
to grow any veg this year, but next year I know that there will be some
insect or infestation to burst my balloon.

How disheartening after all that hard work

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In article ,
Baz wrote:

I wonder if a gardener can pick up and carry/transmit spores, disease or
parasites and such on their clothing or even on the bodyhair, and carry
them to the garden. Sort of cross contamination. The reason why I wonder
about this is because my vegetable garden is the only one I know of for
a mile or two, and I keep on getting different pests and diseases year
after year. This year it is the gooseberries, which have been here in
this garden for 40 years(so I am told) without any problems.
Then comes mildew 3 years ago and this year sawfly. I havn't been able
to grow any veg this year, but next year I know that there will be some
insect or infestation to burst my balloon.

They can, but that's not the usual reason. Blight overwinters on
a wide variety of garden plants and weeds, and is wind-borne.
The same applies to most pests.

However, the root cause of variation with blight, mildew, rust
etc. is the weather. They thrive under specific circumstances
and, without those, you don't see them. That doesn't stop them
being ubiquitous, which they are.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.