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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: anemone on October 04, 2010, 21:25:55
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My plants have finally got blight. some of the tomatoes look the normal ripe colour, some green and some are starting to go browny black. Are the ripe looking ones okay to eat still? Are the green ones worth saving?
Thank you
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When my tomatoes start to get blight, often I pick them all off at once.
Any, whether ripe or not, that have the brownish black on them are discarded straight away, the rest are washed and dried and laid out on trays.
If they are ripe, I use them.
If they are green and dull, I discard them as they don't really seem to ripen properly.
If they are green and shiny and a good size, I keep them to ripen.
They all need checking daily to see if any are starting to go brown with the blight, but usually I manage to save a fair few, it seems to me to be well worth doing.
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Thank you jennym, exactly what I needed to know !
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Save the best-destroy the rest. I too saw the first signs of blight on a few of my remaining outdoor tomato plants yesterday
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Good luck - i lost all of my outside ones and i thought i only kept the best - obviously not!