exposure mention : curly top disease – photo courtesy ofhttp://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3352
Curly Top Tomato VirusLast twelvemonth , the Beet Leafhopper which transmit ‘ Curly Top Tomato Virus ’ was rampant in our garden and devastated many tomato plants . I lost 50 % of my tomato works . The Beet Leafhopper flies in on the winds in early June through July , parachute on the love apple plants and taste them . They do n’t even like to deplete tomato plant plants but sample them , transmitting the disease in the appendage .
beetroot leafhopper – courtesy ofhttp://www.coopext.colostate.edu/TRA/PLANTS/curlytopvirus.shtml
Photo credits:curly top disease – photo courtesy ofhttp://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3352
Identifying Beet LeafhoppersYou will know if they are here as they come in waves and when you walk around your garden , you ’ll see a lot of jumping minuscule fleeceable bugs that fly off when you take the air by . Then they leave — flying to the next garden . Because of this , you ca n’t really spray anything to get them — here today , gone tomorrow . By the time you notice something is wrong with your plant , they are long gone . It takes about 2 week for symptoms to show up .
SymptomsYour love apple plant folio will start to curl and the underside of the leaf will turn over a purplish color The leaves then embark on to droop and the plant will look stunt . You might recall it call for water but it does n’t , it is sick and wo n’t recover . ‘ Curly - Top ’ is only carry from bug to industrial plant is NOT send from plant life to plant hence you will see a healthy flora next to a sick plant .
RemediesThere is NO CURE for this virus and if your tomato ( or Piper nigrum for that matter ) picture augury of the disease , you should pull out the works . You could leave the plant in BUT if another undulation of leafhopper come by and a healthy leafhopper bites your sick plant , it only takes 10 minutes in 90 ° farad weather condition for it to be able to channelize the disease to one of your healthy plant . The good thing to do is pull up any sick plant and dispose of it .
beet leafhopper – courtesy ofhttp://www.coopext.colostate.edu/TRA/PLANTS/curlytopvirus.shtml
leafhopper do not like shadowiness and if your plant life are part shade , that may help keep them off but since most of us spring up tomatoes in full sun that might be hard .
Row cover over the tomato plant plant in my garden
Another affair you may do is create a physical barrier between the bugs and your plant . This class , I ’m plow my tomato plant plant with row cover until the bugs pass off . enwrap the row cover song around your tomato cage and put a slice on top of the batting cage BEFORE they come .
Lastly you could put out some tomatoes later in the season after the bugs leave . Last year when I was out at the Santa Fe Community Garden I noticed many row of sick tomato plant plant life but one wrangle of dead healthy plant and when I asked about them , it turned out they were put out about a calendar month subsequently than the rest of them and by then the leafhoppers were gone .
Dry , gay , windy weather are double-dyed experimental condition for the leafhoppers so reckon out this summertime - conditions are ripe again !
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Row cover over the tomato plants in my garden
