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Clean Up Garden
Before Planting
If you’re a good “housekeeper" in your garden, you’ll bypass lots of disease woes next season.
S. B. Fenne, plant pathologist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, says organisms which cause many vegetable diseases live through the winter in plant refuse. Some live in perennial roots and stalks and in common weeds; others live in the soil. Much of the disease-causing material can be destroyed by proper sanitary measures.
Fenne says sanitation is esp ecially important for home gardeners and truckers who grow vegetables intensively and in fields where rotation is not practiced. Many disease outbreaks can be traced to refuse that has not been destroyed. The best way to get rid of it is to.burn it.
Where enough land is available to practice a three or four - year rotation, turning under plant material by plowing is generally effective. Many gardeners make the mis take of composting vegetable trimmings or garden refuse and then putting the material from the compost pile back on the garden. Fenne says disease organisms often live over winter in the compost pile, and putting the material from the compost back on areas where the same crops as are
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to be grown may simply prolong the disease cycle. Destroying weeds is also-,im portant. Many of them harbor plant disease organisms. Fenne’s list of diseases that may carry over the winter in plant refuse, weeds, or soil, is a long one. Best not take a chance. Clean up the garden and you’ll have less trouble with disease next season.
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