Topic: Tomato Emergency

[Jeanette]

Hello Everyone, I'm in desperate need of help with a tomato plant problem.  My plants are looking very ill and I don't know what the problem is.  They started off with leaf curl but now this is beginning to happen.




Could anyone tell me what the problem is or what I am doing wrong.  I have a 6 x 8 foot greenhouse full of tomatoes and I don't want to lose them all, is there anything I can do or is it too late  :'(

[ceres]

I think you have a bad case of blight and if they all look like that, it's too late.  The only thing you can do now is to take the green tomatoes off and make chutney.   

[Le-y]

same thing happened to two of mine i pulled and dumped them the other day :( was a sad day

[davyw1]

DUMPED THEM,   you dumped blighted tomato foliage.

[hippydave]

lost all of mine again it gets me down :'( im just going to grow peppers and aubs next year this is the third year that ive lost them

[chriscross1966]

lost all of mine again it gets me down :'( im just going to grow peppers and aubs next year this is the third year that ive lost them

Lost all the outdoor ones on the plot but the GH ones are OK so far.....dry foliage I guess.....

chrisc

[amphibian]

DUMPED THEM,   you dumped blighted tomato foliage.

Landfill is the best place for it.

[saddad]

Sorry to see your toms in such a state Jeanette, but welcome to A4A...  :)

[davyw1]

DUMPED THEM,   you dumped blighted tomato foliage.

Landfill is the best place for it.

A large fire is the right place for them

[Borlotti]

I agree, a good bonfire, but must look up when we allowed to have one as have a lot of stuff to burn, that can't be composted, mares tail etc. etc. but think we can't burn in the summer months, just off to look up Council rule book.

[boltonlad]

I know the feeling mine have been coming down to the dreaded blight for the past week 20 alicante plants all dying before my eyes.  Its a decent greenhouse and I was getting a really good crop.  The only thing I can do now is pull out all the alicante and hope the beefsteaks (which dont seem to be as badly affected) keep going.

Anything that is still okay will go on the windowledge and hopefully still ripen.  Its a sad day on my allotment.

[daileg]

if you have blight on your plants its allready to late take them off cook them while you can try to ripen them you will be throwing them out a couple a day and they still wont ripen in time i made chutney wilth some onions salvage what you can while you can .

then dispose of the plants via burning or via the green re cycling as this gets heat treated