Origin of Tomato Blight revealed. It's a domestic terrorist attack!

[RoccoR5955]

I was forwarded this from a friend:
The Northeast United States -- of which Maine is still part of -- may have experienced its first widespread terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001.

Only we don't know it yet.

Here's what we do know so far:

In May and early June, an Alabama-based seedling company with alleged ties to terrorist organizations (i.e. separatist insurgents who engaged in an unsuccessful Civil War 1861-65 and went underground thereafter, surfacing as the States Rights movement and the Southern Baptist Convention) shipped hundreds of thousands of blight-infected tomato seedlings to so-called "big box" stores in the northeast -- Wal-Mart, Lowes, Kmart and Home Depot, all of which are well-represented in Maine. The seedlings also were shipped to hundreds of small greenhouses that marketed them to small farms and garden customers.

Here's the full article: http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/view/columns/6774828.html

[hippywife]

1. What did I say when this first came out?

People need to stop helping these things spread by buying seeds and seedlings from reputable growers, not from the big box stores. They ship their crap all over the country and a problem that would have only effected one area of the country, and died out there, is suddenly all over the freakin' place!

Thanx for posting that. :hi:

[Blue Gardener]

2. Not surprised at all

The master gardeners around here have suspected this for awhile.

[HamdenRice]

3. Funny coincidence, this was the first year I grew only tomatoes from seed

so I did not experience the blight everyone was talking about. And I usually bought from a garden center, not a big box store, but I'm sure their stock was contaminated this year.