Blight

So, the first time I tried to grow a tomato was when I lived in Meridian, Idaho.  I tried to grow it in a bucket.  I have no idea what variety I picked, but I suspect it was not a great container choice.  Furthermore, being Oregon born and bred, where rain is plentiful and temperatures are relatively mild, I didn't realize just how much water that little Idahoan tomato needed.  It turned out like this:

Picture this, only more dead.

I didn't try to grow any vegetables for many a year after that, but in the mean time I became very good at killing house plant.

Anyway, later on, as mentioned in a previous post, I attempted to grow another tomato plant.  This time I lived in Western Washington.  Several things went wrong here.  One of them was my determination not to let this new tomato die of thirst.  There was also the soil depth issue, lack of sun, my failure to realize that tomatoes don't like wet leaves...  and this is what happened:

Early blight.  My nemesis.  My greatest fear.  I hope never to see this tragic fungal stain on my vegetables ever again.

I'm doing what I can to avoid early blight this time around.  But I am simultaneously fearful of another offender:

Late blight.  I only learned of late blight this year.  Probably because none of my tomato plants ever made it to "late."  In my opinion, late blight would be far worse, simply because all your hard labor would amount to nothing.  At least with early blight you haven't slaved away all summer waiting for delicious fruits.  I shall have to conduct further research to learn how best to avoid this bad boy.  So far, I have found this link to be quite informative:  How to prevent late blight: organic gardening

The end.