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Green Thumb 6-9-22: Tips for Diagnosing Tomato Plant Problems

June 9, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Free

Photo of Jenny GlassPlease join us for:

“Tips for Diagnosing Tomato Plant Problems to Set You on Your Way Towards Solving (or Better Yet, Avoiding) Solanaceous Crop Problems” presented by WSU Extension Diagnostician, Jenny Glass via Zoom.

Use this link to join the Zoom Presentation on Thursday June 9th at 12:00 noon.

Or join by phone: 253 215 8782
Meeting ID: 920 0799 1742
Passcode: 709395

Jenny Glass, diagnostician at the WSU Puyallup Plant & Insect Diagnostic Lab for the past two decades, has an interesting history with tomatoes and other Solanaceous plants. Hairy nightshade was her favorite weed to remove in her childhood vegetable garden in Poulsbo as it was fuzzy to the touch and a satisfying amount of the roots still attached to the plant after hand pulling. During a Peace Corps volunteer stint in The Gambia (West Africa) during the mid-1990s, she distributed tomato seeds in her efforts to support the work of women farmers in the Upper River Division where she lived- only to find that the cultivar she had been able to purchase was unfortunately highly-susceptible to root-knot nematode infection leading to poor crop performance- lesson learned: avoid monocultures. In her Master’s degree work at Oregon State University, she worked with Phytophthora infestans, the dreaded Oomycete pathogen associated with late blight of potato and tomato and almost lost her first year research efforts as she forgot that the clonal lineage of pathogen she was using for research was a recent re-emergent that was characterized by rapidly aggressive spread relative to the original strains responsible for the historic potato blights that she had been studying in the literature- so planning a vacation right after field inoculation was a poor idea. And after a lifetime of having to explain that eating fresh tomatoes wasn’t really her thing, she discovered the culinary joy of roasted tomatoes and has never looked back on trying to plant enough plants (‘Juliet’ is one of her favorites for PNW gardens) for the salads, soups, and stews she failed to partake of in years past. Jenny can be reached at jennyglass@wsu.edu

Details

Date:
June 9, 2022
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:

Venue

Online presentation
WA United States

Organizer

WSU Extension
Phone:
360-417-2280
Email:
clea.rome@wsu.edu