Week 23: Mountain Tomatoes

This week, we finished our final village visit for the tomato disease survey.  We visited a mountain village which made for a strenuous day of trekking through tomato fields.  In this village, there were some interesting intercroppings: tomato/maize, tomato/radish, tomato/pea/maize, and tomato/potato.   The rest of the week was spent in the lab and screenhouse, mostly doing takedown of a big assay.

Pics below!

Eager and ready to begin the day!

Eager and ready to begin the day!

One of the paths we walked along between fields: it was about 1 foot wide and on one side, there was an irrigation stream and on the other side, it dropped off into a field. Don't lose your balance!

One of the paths we walked along between fields: it was about 1 foot wide and on one side, there was an irrigation stream and on the other side, it dropped off into a field. Don’t lose your balance!

The soils here have a lot of mica in them.

The soils here have a lot of mica in them.

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Check out that terracing

Check out that terracing!

It looks like an amphitheater

It looks like an amphitheater

If your tomatoes have late blight ...

If you’re intercropping tomato/potato and one gets late blight..

The other will get it too!

The other will get it too.

Adorable goat

Adorable goat

Sleepy pig

Sleepy pig

There are peaches and apples in this village, too. Here's some peach leaf curl (Taphrina deformans)

There are peaches and apples in this village, too. Here’s some peach leaf curl (Taphrina deformans)

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In other exciting news this week, I found a baby gecko inside my mosquito netting. Luckily, I was able to safely remove if and place it outside.

How did that gecko get in there?

How did that gecko get in there?

Gotcha! Get out its awesome eye!

Gotcha! Check out its awesome eye!

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