Adventures with Blight

We have a fungus among us. The Acre has been attacked once again this year by the Lex Luthor to our veggie's Superman. The past two years we've lost our squash, pumpkins and cucumbers to the blight. This year it's worse, attacking our usual victims, along with our beans and tomatoes.

After several internet searches we learned the common spray used to combat blight may be responsible for the decline in honey bee colonies. We would rather lose our crop than be responsible for killing honey bees, so we kept looking. We found this and decided to give it a try. (we are in no way affiliated with or compensated by this product or company)

 So far we seem to have at least slowed the blight down. The spots on the pumpkin plants have not turned the leaf yellow, so we are keeping our fingers crossed.

We have many pumpkins this year, we would like to keep em alive

The blight seemed to be moving from the bottom of the garden up the hill, we lost the green beans, we got about 40 jars before they died, so it wasnt a total loss.

We pulled up the yellow plants, treated the ground, then replanted October beans in their place.

The eight ounce jar of powder makes 16 gallons of spray, and the price works out to about a dollar a gallon. If any of you good folks are experiencing the blight, you might want to look into this stuff. Save a plant, save a honey bee.
K&K