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Powdery Mildew on Peas
Select powdery mildew resistant or tolerant varieties!
Cornell University’s lists of Disease Resistant Varieties
- Longbeans
- Green beans: Provider, Merpatim, Parkit, Perkutut, Sriti
- Cucumber: Diva, Cumlaude, Media F1. Slicers: Cornell’s list
- Muskmelon: Ambrosia F1, Primo (western type), Sun Jewel
- Pea:
- Ambassador – Resistant to powdery mildew, entation virus and fusarium wilt
- Cavalier – Good resistance to powdery mildew.
- Greenshaft – Resistant to downy mildew and fusarium wilt
- Rondo – Resistant to fusarium wilt
- Downy Mildew resistant peas: Kelevdon Wonder, Oasis, Twinkle, Avola, Hurst Greenshaft, Ambassador, Cavalier and Peawee.
- Pumpkin: 18 Karat Gold, Gladiator
- Winter Squash: almost all varieties
- Yellow Summer Squash: Success, Sunray, Sunglo
- Zucchini: Ambassador, Wildcat, Cornell’s list
Healthy Practices Make a Difference!
Plant in full sun!
Plant so leaves of one plant don’t touch another and spread the spores.
Remove any debris or dead leaves breeding habitat.
Remove and don’t compost infected leaves. If you don’t remove them, you reinfect your plant each time you water.
Wash tools and your hands before you go from one plant to the next.
Water in the AM, at ground level. No overhead watering.
BEFORE you have mildew, while your plants are still babies, drench the leaves with a baking soda/milk mix. Tablespoon Soda, ¼ cup nonfat milk powder, drop of liquid dish detergent in a watering can.
Drench weekly with your mix. But if you think you aren’t going to be able to get rid of the mildew, sadly, do the one cut prune. Remove that plant so it won’t infect others – yours or your neighbors’. Do this sooner than later. Mildew is windborne, so the more mildew, the more is spread.
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Other Community Gardens
Full Circle Farm, Sunnyvale CA
Some community gardens are larger and have different purposes! Full Circle Farm is 11 acres! It is an organic educational farm funded by nonprofit Sustainable Community Gardens. One of their goals is to put ‘fresh food in Santa Clara Unified School District cafeterias.’ Their ‘About Us’ page says: Programs being developed include a science and nutrition elective for 6-8th graders, a farm-based apprenticeship program for teenagers, a mentoring program where at-risk teens lead elementary youth in garden and nutrition workshops, and a variety of school field trip programs.
As a team, young people grow their own food, and develop critical life skills of communication, teamwork, leadership, decision-making, and problem-solving through practical, hands-on agricultural and entrepreneurial experiences. If you will be up that way over the summer, here’s where to visit: 1055 Dunford Way, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
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Good Green Thinking!
From Mother Earth News: Grow $700 of Food in 100 Square Feet! 4 great tips from Rosalind Creasy & Cathy Wilkinson Barash:
- Choose indeterminate tomatoes. They keep growing and producing fruit until a killing frost. (Determinate varieties save space but ripen all at once.)
- In spring, plant cool-season vegetables, including lettuce, mesclun and stir-fry green mixes, arugula, scallions, spinach and radishes. They are ready to harvest in a short time, and they act as space holders until the warm-season veggies fill in.
- Grow up. Peas, small melons, squash, cucumbers and pole beans have a small footprint when grown vertically. Plus, they yield more over a longer time than bush types.
- Plants such as broccoli, eggplant, peppers, chard and kale are worth the space they take for a long season. As long as you keep harvesting, they will keep producing until frost
The expanded second edition of Rosalind Creasy’s landmark book, Edible Landscaping, will be released in Spring 2010.
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