Tomato Blight

MunnyBoiler

I have the answer! Dump a carton of bordeaux mixture straight into the waterbutt and it will kill any blight spores!!!

Lotus-eater

As long as the water from your butt doesn't touch the leaves, you will be ok.
How long blight spores would last in an enclosed butt I have no idea.

Lotus-eater

MunnyBoiler wrote: »

I have the answer! Dump a carton of bordeaux mixture straight into the waterbutt and it will kill any blight spores!!!

I'm almost certain you would be better off spraying the mixture over the plants.

MunnyBoiler

Hmmmm.... I agree Lotus-eater!!! I certainly won't be contaminating my waterbutt with bordeaux and I shall stick to the tried and trusted spraying method.

tripod2000

Had blight for the first time in 20 years of tomato growing. Found it one day on two plants that I removed then 2 days later had to remove the other 40 odd plants from the allotment. Everyone over the allotment has got it only some people have thrown their tomato plants at the side of my allotment (on wasteland round the edge) just helping to keep it spread.

I got about 20 green tomatoes as they had only just begun to set fruit and have 3 red at the moment but they're tiny and seeing as each of 45-50 plants had 3 to 4 trusses of 10 fruit. These really were majestic plants.

Does anyone know if there is any preperation for the ground I can work now to prevent it remaining in the ground?

buggalugs

Hi everyone, I too got blight on my tomatoes, I almost cried, but thats not why I am posting.
I read on here that you can take the tomatoes off green and then use them. I did that with some of them and they are sitting on my windowsill. One truss, after a few days, showed the familiar rotting of the tomato. Now my question is, how long should I wait before using the green tomatoes in chutney? I don't want to use them if they already have the blight in them.
Please help a newbie.

Sazbo

Hi buggalugs i'm new to all this too, but I read somewhere that if the toms you've taken off don't show signs of rotting after a few days then they should be ok. I came back from a week's hols on Saturday to find my toms had blight, removed about half of the toms on sunday and laid them out to ripen, since then a small number of them have shown blight, but rest seem ok.

hth,
Saz x

MunnyBoiler

This is turning into a support group for posters who have suffered tom blight!

It is really depressing when you've spent months lovingly tending the plants. have lots of tomatoes form and then overnight, see them destroyed by blight.

buggalugs

Thank You Saz, hopefully they will be ok:)
Jacqui

sazza42

I've been growing tomatoes for about 4 years now & have never had a problem with blight. However, I've just come indoors from picking all of my ripe tomatoes as most of my plants seem to be infected. I'm growing two types of bush tomatoes, one type seems to have it (red alert I think it's called) & the other kind (a small yellow type) doesn't seem to have it at all. I'm hoping the yellow ones are OK as they aren't as ripe as the other ones and taste far better!