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Tomato Virus

Do you ever feel like you can't catch a break? Two days after spending a day building a garden box, filling it with soil and planting tomatoes in the ground, I come across this news item:

Tomato-killing virus detected in Calif.

SACRAMENTO - An insect-borne virus that has killed tomato plants across Central America, Florida and Georgia has been detected in California for the first time.

The virus, known as tomato yellow leaf curl, devastated crops in the Dominican Republican and in Mexico, forcing those countries to curtail the growing season to contain the spread of the disease.

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No signs of the virus yet, but I'm not holding my breath.

Posted by Steven Spencer on May 22, 2007 7:29 PM |

Comments

Let's hope there were no Brood XIII Cicada larvae in the soil. . .

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070521-cicada-facts.html

Posted by: Ian Kennedy Author Profile Page | May 22, 2007 8:45 PM

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