Topic: blight and tomatoes

[springbok]

Reading all these threads about blight on tomato plants.
I have one question does any one have plants without blight. That are healthy
and producing good fruit currently. I can not be only one without blight problems.

I wonder what I am doing different then every one else on this board.
Since my plants are doing amazing. I just picked 4 kg of ripe fruit of 5 of my plants.


 

A brit would us POUNDS AND OUNCES for a start!!!!.

[Jeannine]

Me, I have no blight but I do have a good nose for sniffing stuff out XX Jeannine

I Picked 6 pounds off 1 Plant today..pictures available.

[nastybritishgardener]

Eristic I would love post picture of the tomatoes, but they are not tomatoes any more. They were the sauce tonites meal..

[Admin aka Dan]

I have had a look, and I don't think nast and the great are the same person (unless thegreatgadener is on holiday).

Sometimes we jump to conclusions which are not justified.

[Hyacinth]

Eristic I would love post picture of the tomatoes, but they are not tomatoes any more. They were the sauce tonites meal..

4.kg of toms for sauce for ONE meal? :o Mind you, spect there were a lot of you to feed  ;D

(sigh..) nah Dan, sometimes conclusions are justified..

[nastybritishgardener]

A few clarifications the 4 kg of tomatoes came from 5 plants.

The sauce  used more then 4 kg of tomatoes   and many other ingredients.
The sauce was used to enhance a dish.  The total amount of sauce I made was about 2 quarts for those who are metric shy.
 

[GrannieAnnie]

Borlotti  thegreatgardener/nastybritishgardener isn't worth worrying about.
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Commercial growers grow under glass where it's less likely, and probably treat their plants as well if need be.
http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0803/tomato_blight.asp
As you can see conditions have been ideal for it this year sadly.

Has anyone tried the copper treatment this URL mentions? I guess it won't work if plants are out in rain?
I'm not sure if some of mine have what you call blight- they get pinhole size brown spots then the whole leaf yellows and shrivels and drops. This moves from the ground up, never the reverse. 
One plant has a different problem: one healthy green stem near the top that is just wilting which is new. Some plants just look tired. We haven't had rain in a few weeks so I'm having to water and maybe the drought is wearing them down.

[ceres]

Yes, I use Bordeaux Mix and my toms are all outdoors.  Last year I didn't start spraying until the plants were infected and although it perhaps slowed the progression down a little, it didn't save the crop.  This year, I did the first spray a week after planting out and at the recommended intervals after that and, touch wood, I have no blight (yet).  I'm getting about 4lbs toms every couple of days at the moment. 

[betula]

Good yield.No blight for me this year ,thank goodness. :)

[Hyacinth]

A few clarifications the 4 kg of tomatoes came from 5 plants.

The sauce  used more then 4 kg of tomatoes   and many other ingredients.
The sauce was used to enhance a dish.  The total amount of sauce I made was about 2 quarts for those who are metric shy.
 

(sigh...) we don't "do" quarts ::)

PS Please would you post your recipe in the appropriate forum? We love new recipes there ;)

[Baccy Man]

(sigh...) we don't "do" quarts ::)

Yes we do but a little clarification as to wether they are imperial quarts or US quarts would help as they are completely different measurements.
2 Imperial quarts = 2.273045 litres
2 US liquid quarts = 1.892705892 litres

More relevant to this thread. I haven't got blight yet this year although I do have botrytis in one of my greenhouses.

[GrannieAnnie]

(sigh...) we don't "do" quarts ::)

2 Imperial quarts = 2.273045 litres
2 US liquid quarts = 1.892705892 litres

Oh, come on BaccyMan- couldn't you be a bit more precise??
 ;)

[Hyacinth]

BaccyMan - we don't "talk" QUARTS? :-\ as a regular thing?

And, in case a recipe is also forthcoming??? a hint for the poster.....we don't 'do' "cups" either,  and we also don't talk of "shortening" (just in case he intends puttin a bl**din pie-crust over the whole canoodle)  ;D

grrrrrrrrrrrr  ;)

Back to topic......my first actual experience of blight was with my own plants this year, courtesy of great pix on this forum, so was able to see the first iffy cherry tom. on a client's outdoor plant this morning, look more closely at that, and adjacent plants, pronounce blight, etc.etc.etc....she'll have, I'm sure, a trayful of Saved Toms, ripening under paper in the house - and my street-cred has risen exponentially - as will my rates next year.

Thanks Peeps! ;D

[greyhound]

a hint for the poster.....we don't 'do' "cups" either

Now then!  A number of regular contributors often post recipes using cup measures ....

I agree, though, I do find it more helpful if it's converted to weight.  Not fussed whether it's metric or imperial.  8)

[Hyacinth]

Now then!  A number of regular contributors often post recipes using cup measures ....

Quick search on the words "quarts" and "cups" on the Recipes forum doesn't suggest this  is so, given the no. of recipes posted in a year....errrr...any mathematician whizz-kids here? Baccyman, you reading this & got nothing better planned this evening? ;)

[Baccy Man]

Don't do cups ??? what about this parsley soup recipe from your very own hand Lishka, or don't you consider yourself a regular contributor.
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,19567.msg201541.html#msg201541

[Hyacinth]

....in May 2006 (ahh, the halcyon times when I was young and the sap was risin'... fish were jumpin' an' the parsley was high..)....awwwwwww!!

But that was then, and this is now ..... :-[

No I'm not a regular 'tributor (I think, but shoorly stats will prove me rong? ;)) to recipes as such, tho I do remember googling for something back then to use all the superfluous parsley I had.....hence coming across this US recipe and trying it & then passing it on?

[Trixiebelle]

Blight on tomato plants is SURELY nothing to do with what the gardener who plants the tomatoes is 'doing' (right or wrong) It's a disease ..... ????

Oh well .... who am I to say? I'm just a niceeastmidlandsgardener  ;D

[greyhound]

Now then!  A number of regular contributors often post recipes using cup measures ....

Quick search on the words "quarts" and "cups" on the Recipes forum doesn't suggest this  is so

Don't make me name names! but I've seen plenty of recipes posted that originated in the USA, SA etc. and thus feature cups.

Yours did have the conversions, though, so you're let off.   ;D

[Eristic]

Oh, come on BaccyMan- couldn't you be a bit more precise??

For those who are relatively new to this site, BaccyMan is our equivalent of Dr. Spok of Starship Enterprise fame.