{"id":6320,"date":"2012-07-23T14:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T18:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6320"},"modified":"2012-07-30T08:30:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T12:30:17","slug":"late-blight-north-of-plattsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/07\/23\/late-blight-north-of-plattsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Late blight north of Plattsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gardening news doesn&#8217;t usually rise to the urgency of real breaking news, but the appearance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longislandhort.cornell.edu\/vegpath\/photos\/lateblight_tomato.htm\">late blight<\/a> in the region is just that serious for the many growers and gardeners who rely on their tomato and potato crops.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, Amy Ivy gave us an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/20184\/20120723\/late-blight-moving-northward\">update<\/a> on late blight&#8217;s progress north from Long Island to Syracuse and Dutchess County. A few minutes ago, she copied me into an e-mail with the bad news that the disease is now in Clinton County, and is probably well-dispersed across the region.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry to say our first case of late blight in Clinton County was just confirmed by the lab at Cornell.<\/p>\n<p>It was on tomatoes in a small home garden just north of Plattsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>It was spreading slowly through the planting, probably due to the hot, dry weather.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the hot, dry weather probably slowed it down. It&#8217;s not pretty, literally, and late blight can wipe out your tomato patch in days. A reminder from Amy: if you suspect late blight, bag the plants and dispose of them (don&#8217;t compost!), saving a sample of leaves and stem to bring to the local extension office for I.D. and testing. They&#8217;re interested in containing the spread as much as possible, but also in figuring which of the many strains of late blight we have here.<\/p>\n<p>See our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/20187\/20120723\/late-blight-reaches-the-north-country\">related story<\/a> for more details on the importance of copper as a preventive, and an alternative for home gardeners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardening news doesn&#8217;t usually rise to the urgency of real breaking news, but the appearance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[884,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}