# \#pests-and-disease **URL:** https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/tag/pests-and-disease/125.md [Latest](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/latest.md) · [Categories](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/categories.md) · [Tags](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/tags.md) --- ## [What tomato disease is this?](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/what-tomato-disease-is-this/4944)
**Author:** [@malterod](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/malterod)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2026, 1:54am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/what-tomato-disease-is-this/4944 "2026-08-06T01:54:11Z")
I am culling tomato plants for diseases. What tomato disease is this? I first thought blossom end rot, but the holes and brown spots are not at the blossom end. This is another plant with damaged leaves. Mostly olde… --- ## [Growing squash - tips and observations](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/growing-squash-tips-and-observations/3850)
**Author:** [@DebbieA](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/DebbieA)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/growing-squash-tips-and-observations/3850 "2026-04-05T18:08:57Z")
Hello, squash growers. If you received any of the Cucurbita squash mixes from Going to Seed, we’ll be sending you a series of emails that offer information and guidance for growing these crops. While we hope that the sug… --- ## [Book Report - Crop Histories by Raoul Robinson](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/book-report-crop-histories-by-raoul-robinson/4389)
**Author:** [@suffling](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/suffling)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/book-report-crop-histories-by-raoul-robinson/4389 "2025-11-17T21:44:20Z")
This is my (long) summary and comments for Crop Histories, by Raoul Robinson. Overall I really enjoyed this book. It’s a fun and fascinating read all about human history and our crops, and might serve as a primer to som… --- ## [Resistance against carrot fly](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/resistance-against-carrot-fly/4327)
**Author:** [@malterod](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/malterod)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/resistance-against-carrot-fly/4327 "2025-11-01T12:31:10Z")
I want to discuss and learn about resistance in carrots, and possibly other roots in Apiaceae, to the carrot fly (Chamaepsila rosae) This is high on my list for selecting resistance against. I do not like to grow vegeta… --- ## [Cucumis sativa for bacterial wilt adaptation Year 1](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/cucumis-sativa-for-bacterial-wilt-adaptation-year-1/4186)
**Author:** [@laven09](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/laven09)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/cucumis-sativa-for-bacterial-wilt-adaptation-year-1/4186 "2025-08-29T16:56:41Z")
Starting a cucumber adaptation project in southeast NH for bacterial wilt resistance. --- ## [Okra Webinar!](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/okra-webinar/3452)
**Author:** [@SeedBecca](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/SeedBecca)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/okra-webinar/3452 "2025-02-03T16:31:05Z")
Join for an inspiring webinar featuring Chris Smith (executive director of the Utopian Seed Project and author of The Whole Okra), Ekow Stone (Ontario Farmer-Researcher and on-farm okra breeder at It’s Giving Farm), and … --- ## [Adaptation spinach for symphylan resistance and local conditions in Corbett, OR](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/adaptation-spinach-for-symphylan-resistance-and-local-conditions-in-corbett-or/2270)
**Author:** [@suffling](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/suffling)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/adaptation-spinach-for-symphylan-resistance-and-local-conditions-in-corbett-or/2270 "2024-11-18T21:07:12Z")
This year my farm is beginning an adaptation project for spinach. We’ve been growing individual varieties of spinach for the last eight seasons here in Corbett, OR, and we’ve had a lot of challenges. We suspect one of th… --- ## [Adaptation maxima squash for symphylan resistance and local conditions in Corbett, OR](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/adaptation-maxima-squash-for-symphylan-resistance-and-local-conditions-in-corbett-or/2271)
**Author:** [@suffling](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/suffling)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/adaptation-maxima-squash-for-symphylan-resistance-and-local-conditions-in-corbett-or/2271 "2024-11-18T20:42:02Z")
This year my farm is beginning an adaptation project for maxima squash. We’ve been growing individual varieties of winter squash for the last eight seasons here in Corbett, OR. While we generally have decent harvests, th… --- ## [What do you do about animal pests?](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/what-do-you-do-about-animal-pests/495)
**Author:** [@UnicornEmily](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/UnicornEmily)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/what-do-you-do-about-animal-pests/495 "2024-10-14T16:41:14Z")
Some people have mice and voles that eat their crops. I have . . . a one-year-old human who keeps trying to gnaw on my squashes that are being stored for winter, and who recently chowed down on a bunch of my squash seed… --- ## [Update on Cucumbers with resistance to Angular Leaf Spot, DM, and Bacterial Wilt](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/update-on-cucumbers-with-resistance-to-angular-leaf-spot-dm-and-bacterial-wilt/2959)
**Author:** [@CareoftheEarth](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/CareoftheEarth)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/update-on-cucumbers-with-resistance-to-angular-leaf-spot-dm-and-bacterial-wilt/2959 "2024-09-24T13:32:46Z")
We harvested our seed crop from our original cucumber planting. We are happy with the final grex. Early in the planting, we had cucumber beetle pressure (bacterial wilt) and Angular Leaf Spot, which is common here in Jun… --- ## [Selection Celebration-- share photos of your bugs, molds, blight, and slugs](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538)
**Author:** [@julia.dakin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/julia.dakin)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 11:11am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/selection-celebration-share-photos-of-your-bugs-molds-blight-and-slugs/538 "2024-09-09T11:11:51Z")
How did the the bugs and diseases teach your plants how to be strong in during the past growing season? Was it hard to watch it happen without saving every plant? I’m working on a few ppt slides and getting a bit ti… --- ## [What ails my cowpeas?](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/what-ails-my-cowpeas/2641)
**Author:** [@Logan\_zzz333](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Logan_zzz333)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/what-ails-my-cowpeas/2641 "2024-07-18T20:22:27Z")
I’m relatively new at everything gardening, so I really don’t have any idea what could be wrong. Meaning I’m not sure what to list out as possible factors. I’m not even certain something is wrong, the seeds just look sic… --- ## [Return to Resistance (Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence)-- Project!](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/return-to-resistance-breeding-crops-to-reduce-pesticide-dependence-project/459)
**Author:** [@julia.dakin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/julia.dakin)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/return-to-resistance-breeding-crops-to-reduce-pesticide-dependence-project/459 "2024-01-24T23:56:04Z")
Raoul Robinson wrote Return to Resistance, and Joseph just reminded me how it’s interesting and important and relevant to landrace gardening. It’s also pretty technical, dense, sometimes confusing, and most people don’t … --- ## [X maximoss](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/x-maximoss/1431)
**Author:** [@Ascentropic](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Ascentropic)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/x-maximoss/1431 "2023-09-02T01:14:10Z")
I’m really enjoying maximoss. My second time growing it. There is segregation for borer resistance, and opportunity to select for that here. Really cool to be able to see maxima types as a locally adapted crop here. … --- ## [Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) Breeding](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/tomato-brown-rugose-fruit-virus-tobrfv-breeding/458)
**Author:** [@WilliamGrowsTomatoes](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/WilliamGrowsTomatoes)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 4:59am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/tomato-brown-rugose-fruit-virus-tobrfv-breeding/458 "2023-07-31T04:59:39Z")
https://www.vegetables.cornell.edu/crops/tomatoes/tomato-brown-rugose-fruit-virus/ So in 2022 one of my sub-projects was to breed in some resistance to the ToBRFV virus a new virus rapidly spreading worldwide for which … --- ## [Any experience breeding for resistance to cutworms?](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/any-experience-breeding-for-resistance-to-cutworms/982)
**Author:** [@MalcolmS](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/MalcolmS)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/any-experience-breeding-for-resistance-to-cutworms/982 "2023-07-29T08:08:59Z")
I tend to have quite a bit of trouble with cutworms in the spring; they seem to move indiscriminately down rows, chomping through plant stems. Has anyone been able to breed resistance to cutworms into their landraces, t… --- ## [A question about vertical and horizontal resistance as they relate to culling plants](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/a-question-about-vertical-and-horizontal-resistance-as-they-relate-to-culling-plants/731)
**Author:** [@MalcolmS](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/MalcolmS)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/a-question-about-vertical-and-horizontal-resistance-as-they-relate-to-culling-plants/731 "2023-02-09T20:24:43Z")
I’m reading the very interesting book, Return to Resistance that was linked in the landrace plant breeding forum. It seems that in a diverse landrace both horizontal and vertical resistance would be functional; the reaso…