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Rachel Lauto's avatar

The way this is so familiar and sad to me. I had a prized florentine tomato plant this year with immaculately set fruit. GORGEOUS green tomatoes by the dozen with ribs like corduroy all around. Within two days it just gave up the ever-loving ghost, slowly followed by all our other tomato plants. Some kind of mildew, I think, because it was so hot we needed to water twice a day, and so humid the second watering never evaporated, but sat on the leaves through the dark, damp night. :(

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Karen Huff's avatar

You’ve beautifully captured the joys, sorrows and challenges of gardening! I continue to learn lessons about aggressive plants, hungry critters, tree roots, watering, fertilizing, etc. We had a real problem with aphids on the leaves of the oak tree that shades our patio several years ago. It dropped sticky sap everywhere, the leaves turned black and all the wasps and hornets and yellow jackets were greatly attracted to something about that big mess driving us indoors. We got a tree service to diagnose the issue and now they treat the tree every spring with dormant oil and it has been very successful. I hope your precious citrus trees and figs can survive the various plagues!!

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