Episode-2460- Understanding Disease Resistant Vegetable Varieties
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The typical story about disease and vegetables is something like this from the all natural crowd….
Just use compost and good organic fertility, build good soil and it won’t be a problem.
Yea, um, about that, look good soil, good fertility and abundant soil life and minerals go a long way to healthy plants, but they don’t eliminate all diseases. Some of my beans are developing a fungus referred to as rust this year. Why? It is so much wetter then normal. The same beds are growing jalapenos the size of cigars, there is nothign wrong with the soil.
In Texas and much of the south the battle with tomato blight is a constant battle. You can start with soil that is perfect from a bag and by mid season it shows up. Good watering practices, mulching and proper pruning help, but many in the all organic and permaculture world seem reluctant to use one of the best weapons at our disposal. These are disease resistant hybrids.
Hybrids have been given a bad rap lately and tossed in with the world of GMOs. I have covered this before but they are not the same thing. A hybrid green bean like Jade II is as much a GMO as a dog that is a shepherd crossed with a collie is, in other words not at all.
Today we will review some of the more common diseases and fungi that limit yields and even sometimes totally destroy vegetable plants along with some varieties of seed that have disease resistance built into them. More importantly we discuss how to identify a disease vs. pest damage vs. nutrient deficiency and what to do about them and specifically how to find disease resistant varieties based on your individual needs.
Join me today to discuss….
- GMO vs. hybrids vs. heirlooms vs. wild type
- Why I hate GMOs but why I am not actually opposed to them
- What is advanced genetic selection and how it may largely replace GMOs anyway
- Science isn’t the enemy it is why our lives are amazing right now
- Follow best practices and use resistant varieties, one is not done the the exclusion of the other
- Please understand the diseases and resistant varieties today are a tiny representation, not an exhaustive list
- Some common vegetables and diseases along with resistant varieties
- Bush and Pole Beats
- Rust
- Some Resistant Varieties – Jade II Bush, Kentucky Wonder Pole
- Bacterial Brown Spot
- Some Resistant Varieties – Cabot Bush, Kentucky Dreamer Bush
- Halo Blight
- Some Resistant Varieties – Boone Bush, Frontier Bush,
- Rust
- Cucumbers
- Mosaic Virus
- Some Resistant Varieties – Marketmore 76 & 97, Chinese Snake and Dasher II
- Bacterial Wilt – no highly resistant varieties you have to rely on management
- Varieties with Some resistance Include – Marketmore 76 & 80, Salad Bush, Saladin and Regal
- Consider also spinosad, pyrethrum and kaolin clay
- Mosaic Virus
- Tomatoes
- Early Blight
- Some Resistant Varieties – Juliet, Matt’s Wild Cherry, Legend
- Late Blight
- Some Resistant Varieties – Indigo Rose, Better Boy, Black Plumb
- Fusarium Wilt
- Some Resistant Varieties – Park’s Whopper, Supersweet 100, Celebrity
- Early Blight
- Peppers
- Bacterial Leaf Spot
- Some Resistant Varieties – Admiral, Excursion II, Red Bull, Touchdown
- Tobacco Mosaic Virus
- Some Resistant Varieties – Big Bertha, California Wonder, Giant Marconi, Red Crest in fact most are resistant to a degree.
- Bacterial Leaf Spot
- Bush and Pole Beats
- Sadly there are tons of problems more than these, proper diagnosis is your best weapon
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You would enjoy the podcasts that John Kempf does. They are called Regenerative Agriculture. He speaks at most Acres USA conferences, has his own successful ag and consulting business and he is Amish. In one broadcast he mentioned how boron was a very important mineral in battling tomato blight.
Hey Jack and All, one kinda crazy thing I was looking at last year was plant grafting. The weird pinterest version was the whole ketchup and fries tomato crafted on a potato. The production version that I primarily saw was tomatoes on eggplant. I wonder if you were to graft a rootstock that was highly resistant to soil born fungi etc with a variety that was resistant to airborne fungi/ bacteria. More just food for thought and of course you gotta weigh your time in this. But I think disease resistance could be a good argument to graft the top of a wild tomato variety to a production variety
YES this is a thing, commercial operations do it all time and you can buy like grafted tomato plants. One example https://www.totallytomato.com/C/106/GraftedTomatoPepperPlants
I almost included this in this episode, but wanted to keep it narrow.