This year more then any other it will be important to clean up all that old vegetable debris. It was a wet season, so therefore an active fungal disease season. We need to remove the old dead debris to remove the disease from the vicinity.
Pull up plants and rake away leaves once the plants have stopped producing.
While many disease pathogens winter over on plant debris and an equal amount remain viable in the soil it means, we need to have a strategy to keep the garden relatively clean.
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