What is wrong with these tomato and raspberry leaves?

thistlebloom

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Thank you Seed. I did a little reading on CMV and although it's not a perfect fit it does seem to fall in with the situation here. It has a huge number of hosts including weeds and native plants, and is vectored by aphids.
Since this was just a brushy weedy space previously it seems likely that it could have been around and even in the roots that got tilled under.

I need to do some looking into it and get more familiar with it, but is this something that can be minimized by clean cultivation this year?

Oh, I forgot, the raspberries are perennials...does that make them carriers?
 

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Strong possibility. She may have brought problems home. Watch and see which tomato varieties are worse. I'd go with a healthy hybrids next year. FWIW
 

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They did bring in some composted horse manure from a stable down the road.
No mention of the spraying of dandelions in the horse pasture?

"Persistent" herbicide in the manure ... where did that manure go in her garden?

Steve
 

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The manure and stall bedding got tilled into the whole space.

What puzzles me is how unaffected the squash are. I believe they are susceptible.

I'll check with the other neighbors, where the raspberries came from and see if they have anything going on with theirs.
 

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