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Alert: Late blight disease found on LI tomatoes
If you're growing tomatoes or potatoes, or have nightshade weed growing on your property this year, be on the lookout for late blight disease - a fungus that causes white-mold-encircled gray spots on leaves, blackened stems, wilting and death.
The same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s, late blight has never occurred this early or as widespread on Long Island, according...
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