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Jul. 9th, 2019 04:44 pmIt was an odd weekend when I went to PA. It was so hot, and I left in the morning instead of the evening and just. so hot. I didn't feel like I got a ton done necessarily and the weekend went very quickly.
I started by just walking through my plot and just looking at things, marking down how everything looked. I have small fruit on some peppers and most tomatoes and flowering on the others.
My beans, mung beans, cowpeas have something really wrong with them. Some are about six inches tall, very sad and flowering. I suspect fusarium to be the problem, I saw it on some of my small grains but I'm astounded that it's in the soil already. It's very possible it got picked up through seed saving at some point, whether it was because last year was so wet or something else. But I got seed through a huge variety of sources and it is happening across all legumes in the field. I'm worried that my rye cover crop did it since it doesn't seem to be affecting the peas, but I have no idea. I need to dig up some plants when I'm down there next to look at the roots.
My fall small grains are just about there. I harvested four or fives plots, which was barley that managed to survive the winter somehow. They were in soft to hard dough and the rest will be ready to harvest in two weeks.
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I started by just walking through my plot and just looking at things, marking down how everything looked. I have small fruit on some peppers and most tomatoes and flowering on the others.
My beans, mung beans, cowpeas have something really wrong with them. Some are about six inches tall, very sad and flowering. I suspect fusarium to be the problem, I saw it on some of my small grains but I'm astounded that it's in the soil already. It's very possible it got picked up through seed saving at some point, whether it was because last year was so wet or something else. But I got seed through a huge variety of sources and it is happening across all legumes in the field. I'm worried that my rye cover crop did it since it doesn't seem to be affecting the peas, but I have no idea. I need to dig up some plants when I'm down there next to look at the roots.
My fall small grains are just about there. I harvested four or fives plots, which was barley that managed to survive the winter somehow. They were in soft to hard dough and the rest will be ready to harvest in two weeks.
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