How to Prevent Late Blight

Protect your crops by priming yourself with some know-how

Northeastern gardener have not quite recover from the late - blight outbreak of 2009 . To aid prevent future outbreaks , prime yourself with some know - how .

former blight is a plant disease that mainly attack murphy and tomatoes . It is cause by an oomycete pathogen that infect a industrial plant , make it to break a fungus , which in turn develop millions of fungal spore . These spore travel through the air , Din Land on other plants , and — if the atmospheric condition is sufficiently blotto — stimulate new infections . Dark brown – purple lesions come out on the parting and stems of septic plant ; the leaves may also turn yellow . On tomato fruit , late blight causes dark , stiff , greasy - looking lesion . septic potatoes have rotten brown spots on the surface of the tuber . Once a flora is infected , the fruit or genus Tuber will rapidly decompose . It is important to destroy — not compost — all infected plant . Some farmers recommend burning the plant and fruit / Tuber of belated - blight victim .

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