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Sunday, July 26, 2009
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Bhuber
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St Matthews, SC
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So i was thinking about the problems with growing up at the community garden and the severe phytophthora problems. Being three years of losing my plants half way through the season . Im considering alternatives. Now you can prevent the outbreaks by proper drainage and others ways of prevention. For one the field doesnnt drain well and we always seem to get a time where it rains for days and leaves the field in an inch of water. Well it came to me a rather crazy idea, that is to grow the entire vine along pallets, basically cover the patch in pallets for the plant to grow on. this would sit the plants say 6 inches or so from touching the ground. The water can sit on the soil and flood for all i care itl all run under the pallets while the plant is safely above it. Off coarse i would mound the main trunk up as well. Ive noticed though that the main trunks continue to push new growth even if the whole vine died to the blight. Ive also noticed how toxic the soil is to the vine, the new growth from the trunk touches down back onto the soil, and gets those water soaked lesions on it within a day, and by the next that whole piece is dead. For whats left in this patch this season i may just give it a shot, with really the one plant still has some vines to it.
the past two seasons i would bury the whole plant to get it all rooted out, but it seems like even though its such a benefit to the plant, in this condition itl have to do without.
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