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OF INTEREST TO
FARMERS
FALL CLEAN JP
A clean-up of <1<1 plant refuge, diseased leaves of in the garden in tie fall will help keep down disease S. B. Fenne, plai t pathologist at VPI.
Fenne says the pccially important dend's and truck vegetables are grown intensively and in fields whdre. rotations are not used. The most effective way
material is to
vegetables, etc.,
next year, -says
clean-up is eswith
home garfarmers
where
and is available to dispose of the buifn it. Where enough to practice a throe-year or fouryear rotation, turning under the old material by fall plowing is generally effective Many growers ma|ce the mistake of compositing their vegetable tri timings or field refuge and apply ng the manure from this comport heap to the fields. The disease organisms often live over the win er in the compost pile, and applying the material to fields which are to be Ranted to the smie crops next season creates disease-favoring conditions.
Destroying we d* also is important, as many of them harbor plant disease orgai isfns. All perennial weeds along 1 he margins of a garden or truck field should be destroyed.
Some common diseases carried over in plant are mthracnose, bacterial blight, halo b ight, rootknot and root rot of beans, leafspot and
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