Damned tomato blight !

Primrose

Have just had to rip out and destroy all my prolifically cropping tomato plants which have become infected by blight, almost overnight, even the blight resistant ones.
I will save what fruit I can but wonder if anybody has any "magic" solutions for preserving whatever semi ripe or green fruits I rescued , washed and have got spread out on a number of trays waiting to see what happens to them now.

firefox1956

Green tomato chutney ??

jfdi

Snap, even the ones in the greenhouse. It's an Bsolute pain isn't it?

I've washed them off, tiny splash of Milton in the water. Kept the decent ones on a tray in the fridge and cut off the affected bits on the others and frozen them down in takeaway boxes.

Primrose

I think we have a general lack of understanding about how the spores are absorbed into the fruit, whether transported via the liquid which travels through the stem or whether it,s actually absorbed in through the skin of the fruit.

It,a just disheartening that the orocess takes place so quickly and one dows have to be very careful not to out the infected plants onto the compost heap so that spores are stores and then transferred back into the soil when compost is subsequently spread on the ground.

unrecordings

They'll not keep long. I can only grow in my greenhouses and even then in a good year the blight gets them eventually. You could try accelerating the ripening with a banana or something. The one year I tried growing outdoors and blight decimated the lot. So far, touch wood, potatoes are fine though. Blight or no blight, spent tomato & potato haulms always go in the green bin - just in case