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Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
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The disease blamed for the Irish potato famine in the 1840s is infecting tomato and potato plants in the eastern United States, agricultural officials said. A press release from Cornell University, New York state's land grant college, warned home gardeners and commercial farmers that late blight is killing the tomato and potato plants.
Home gardeners beware: This year, late blight -- a destructive infectious disease that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s -- is killing tomato and potato plants in gardens and on commercial farms in the eastern United States. In addition, basil downy mildew is affecting plants in the Northeast.
ITHACA, N.Y., July 5 (UPI) -- The disease blamed for the Irish potato famine in the 1840s is infecting tomato and potato plants in the eastern United States, agricultural officials said.
PROVIDENCE – The Department of Environmental Management’s Division of Agriculture is advising home gardeners, farmers and commercial growers that an outbreak of Late Blight has been identified in some tomato and potato plants in Rhode Island.
Home gardeners need to be on the lookout for Late Blight, a very destructive and very infectious disease that is killing tomato and potato plants in gardens and on commercial farms in the eastern U.S. according to the Cornell Cooperative Extension.
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CONCORD, N.H. - Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States. Late blight - the same disease that caus
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