re my earlier posts - sorry if i offended anyone - bad day at the office :-(

i'll try again

can anyone tell me what some white markings might be that have appeared on
the leaves of a tomato plant i'm growing in a window box. the markings have
also appeared on a basil plant i was growing nearby.

thanks in advance.

fiev

In article , Fiev
writes
re my earlier posts - sorry if i offended anyone - bad day at the office :-(

In that case - my apologies for responding to you in kind
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

thanks kay - feel a bit more welcome now! not many crocodiles round here so
maybe i need to acclimatize.

fiev

ps (friendly advice - honestly) you really should hide your email address on
NG's, there are lots of programs people use to trawl email addresses from
usenet to use for spam purposes. even if you add something like
it lets people know but confuses the machines :-)


"Kay" wrote in message
...
In article , Fiev
writes
re my earlier posts - sorry if i offended anyone - bad day at the office
:-(

In that case - my apologies for responding to you in kind
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

In article , Fiev
writes
thanks kay - feel a bit more welcome now! not many crocodiles round here so
maybe i need to acclimatize.

fiev

ps (friendly advice - honestly) you really should hide your email address on
NG's, there are lots of programs people use to trawl email addresses from
usenet to use for spam purposes. even if you add something like
it lets people know but confuses the machines :-)

I'm on so many spam lists there really isn't any point! ;-) The bots
have been picking up my addy for *years* - there's absolutely no
pointing in mungeing my address now.
As I said, the spam never reaches me, so I don't have a problem.

More friendly advice - this ng uses bottom (or in-line) posting, and top
posting by the occasional poster messes up the threads. And you really
should post your original pic on a web site somewhere - remember, half
of us haven't seen it yet!
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

"Fiev" wrote in message
...
re my earlier posts - sorry if i offended anyone - bad day at the
office :-(

i'll try again

can anyone tell me what some white markings might be that have
appeared on
the leaves of a tomato plant i'm growing in a window box. the
markings have
also appeared on a basil plant i was growing nearby.

If you still have the picture you tried to send to urg, why don't you
post it to any binary group and give us the URL, so that the experts
might have a look at the symptoms?

Franz

"Franz Heymann" wrote:

If you still have the picture you tried to send to urg, why don't you
post it to any binary group and give us the URL,

And many ISPs give you some web space, so stick the image there. No index
needed if you just list a link to it. Failing that, any number of nice
people here would post an image that you emailed them (asking first, of
course).

Politely (It isn't natural to me...),


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:45:52 +0100, "Fiev"
wrote:

re my earlier posts - sorry if i offended anyone - bad day at the office :-(

i'll try again

can anyone tell me what some white markings might be that have appeared on
the leaves of a tomato plant i'm growing in a window box. the markings have
also appeared on a basil plant i was growing nearby.

thanks in advance.

fiev

Look carefully under the affected leaves. The marks could be feeding
marks from sucking pests like thrips or red spider mites. In either
case you'll most likely need a decent hand lens to see the offenders
clearly. Google should throw up some images of these suspects. Basil
is equally susceptible to these pests. Thrips is my first bet - the
feeding marks are more obvious and they're more likely to be found
outdoors than are rsm. Predators are available to control these pests
or use a suitable pesticide (the label will tell you if it's suitable)
I wouldn't use the fatty acid based materials - don't like soap
flavoured toms.

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