Topic: Another full Smith period

[Robert_Brenchley]

If they start rotting you can still make chutney if you're quick. I'm getting emails about Smith periods every couple of days. No blight yet, but it's only a matter of time.

[Jayb]

Only 4 Full Smith periods in the last 7 days  ::) Must be because it didn't rain all day Sunday!

[Aden Roller]

All my toms and potatoes have been blighted. Ripped up all 15 tomato plants and cut down all the potatoes. We didn't get to eat one tomato  :'(

did you save the green tomatoes?  They will ripen on the windowsill and be ok to eat.

But only if they ripen before the blight develops on them....if not they develop an unpleasant taste as they brown.

A few years back, when I had a really bumper tomato crop hit by blight, I acted quickly collecting the fruit at the first signs of blight on the leaves. We made chutney and tomato sauce but even then we had to throw loads of fruit away as the infection had spread in through the skins and discoloured them. They tasted sleepy and unpleasant. Beware....if infected they will not last.

[galina]

All my toms and potatoes have been blighted. Ripped up all 15 tomato plants and cut down all the potatoes. We didn't get to eat one tomato  :'(

did you save the green tomatoes?  They will ripen on the windowsill and be ok to eat.

But only if they ripen before the blight develops on them....if not they develop an unpleasant taste as they brown.

A few years back, when I had a really bumper tomato crop hit by blight, I acted quickly collecting the fruit at the first signs of blight on the leaves. We made chutney and tomato sauce but even then we had to throw loads of fruit away as the infection had spread in through the skins and discoloured them. They tasted sleepy and unpleasant. Beware....if infected they will not last.

Not my experience, but I find that I have to be really quick to catch them in order to save them.  One day's delay and many of them are lost.

[Ninnyscrops.]

All potato haulms cut down today, and tom plants almost leafless now. Spots on aubergine leaves so took off the bottom ones of those too.

Ninny

[cornykev]

Earlies and Charlottes dug up
Most of the Kestrels dug up with the rest cut down to a halulm stump
Keeping an eye on the mains with a few branch leafs taken off here and there.
 ::) ::) ::)