Tomatoes and fall garden clean-up. - Page 2

ScottinAtlanta · October 29, 2015

Is there any advantage to saturating the soil where disease was heaviest with a bleach solution to push back the spore count?

Gardeneer · October 29, 2015

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Originally Posted by ScottinAtlanta

Is there any advantage to saturating the soil where disease was heaviest with a bleach solution to push back the spore count?

I think you have to know what kind of disease it is first.
Most tomato diseases are airborne. This means that the bacteria/fungus cannot/won't live/survive/overwinter in soil. So there is no need for a soil treatment.
For soil borne diseases , I have no idea that there is a protection method. I have heard peroxide spray can destroy some molds/mildew.

Gardeneer

dfollett · October 29, 2015

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Originally Posted by Worth1

I'm surprised people haven't asked me what a bar ditch was, I get that question all of the time.

Worth

I'll bite. What's a bar ditch?

Gardeneer · October 29, 2015

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Originally Posted by dfollett

I'll bite. What's a bar ditch?

Yeah, me too.
Do they serve alcohol ?

Worth1 · October 29, 2015

A bar ditch is a shortened word for barrow ditch or pit.

Yes people coming home from the bar have been known to end up in the bar ditch.

Some of these ditches are deep and big enough to lose a car or truck in.
They are used for drainage.
When I lived on the coast they even had alligators in them.

Worth

AlittleSalt · October 29, 2015

I grew up calling them bar ditches too. We live off of highway 171. There are several ditches you don't want to drive off into because of how deep they are. There is one that has a tunnel under the road for cows to cross from one field to the one on the other side of the road. You have to know it's there to see it, but it's fun watching cows cross the road that way.

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ScottinAtlanta Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Atlanta, Georgia Posts: 2,593	Is there any advantage to saturating the soil where disease was heaviest with a bleach solution to push back the spore count?

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Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	A bar ditch is a shortened word for barrow ditch or pit. Yes people coming home from the bar have been known to end up in the bar ditch. Some of these ditches are deep and big enough to lose a car or truck in. They are used for drainage. When I lived on the coast they even had alligators in them. Worth

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AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	I grew up calling them bar ditches too. We live off of highway 171. There are several ditches you don't want to drive off into because of how deep they are. There is one that has a tunnel under the road for cows to cross from one field to the one on the other side of the road. You have to know it's there to see it, but it's fun watching cows cross the road that way.