Did some research, found a recipe for a spray to help combat blight, mixed it up, and sprayed a few plants with it. Didn’t fry them, but no idea if it’s going to help or not.

Also discovered that peanuts can get blights as well, and it looks like mine have it too. I may just pull up the peanuts. Hate to do it, but even though they have started blooming, the flowers just fall off … so it doesn’t look like I’d be getting any peanuts anyway. I sprayed a few of them with the blight spray, and I’ll see if it does anything positive. If not, maybe the peanuts get axed this weekend.

I am so angry and disappointed. If I lose all the tomato plants, the potatoes, and the peanuts … that’s more than half my garden. Lin keeps reminding me that my garden is entirely experimental this year. I’m new at it, and I am trying a lot of different plant varieties and growing methods. If things fail, I should just make note of it and not get terribly upset. Everyone keeps saying that! Well, I am terribly upset!!! I know both growing seasons this year are 100% just getting the knowledge I need to be very successful in the future, but dammit … I just wanted a few tasty tomatoes!

It seems like everyone else just buys a bunch of hybrid plants, pours on the Miracle Grow, sprays down everything with an all-purpose bug and disease killer, and they succeed. Beyond succeed. But no … I want to maintain variety diversity and plant heirloom and traditional varieties, I want to be kind to the plants, beneficial insects, and the earth, and it seems that no matter what I do or how much care I take, I am doomed to fail.

To say I am upset and disgusted would be an understatement. I used to go out to the garden to de-stress, and now even my stress-free place is full of stress. This totally sucks.