tomates

Late blight, the tomato & potato fungus that killed all of our tomatoes last season, is back.
It was spotted at a farm in western Massachusetts this week - email alerts went out from the agriculture people at UMass. We have lots of issues in the tomatoes this year, even though most of the plants are looking beautiful - there are so many tomato diseases out there, it's practically impossible not to get any during the course of a season. But how to tell one spot, bullseye or stem lesion from another?
This nerdy website from Cornell Ag. is one great way to spend some time. Nice zoomy photos of all your blight possibilities.

We've been trying not to freak out. We have lots of fruit on the vines so we're hoping to get some ripe ones before the blight makes it out here. Spraying preventative copper (on the organically-approved list, you naysayers); trying to water enough, i.e. at all, and talking about it all the time. Helps a lot.