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Cleaning up diseased tomato plants
So I'm pretty sure I've got diseased plants.
I was thinking that I could cut out the bad parts on the tomatoes and still use them for salsa's but after reading on the interwebs they say it can throw off the PH...
(please tell me different)
BUT my question is the plants are still producing, I've got several green tomatoes that currently don't have any spots or black on them.
Should I wait it out or just chuck all the plants. It's spread to all 5 of my plants, at least there have been fruit on every plant of varying degrees of black stripes.
After I get rid of them I've read that i need to get new soil and stuff for some. I have raised beds. Should I toss all the dirt too? Mix in new dirt over the winter?
Re: Cleaning up diseased tomato plants
Yes, you need to get rid of all the dirt. Many tomato diseases are soil-borne, so it needs to go or it will just infect your new plants. Scrub the inside of your raised beds thoroughly and keep the beds empty until next spring.
Trash the old tomato plants; DO NOT compost them.
*Cries!*
I figured I just needed someone to tell me...
..OR..
You could plant resistant varieties to whatever disease you have and/or practice crop rotation (i.e., don't plant tomatoes in that spot for another 3 years..use container or another raised bed)