Tomato's & Potato's

[gonz]

Is it true that you shouldnt plant tomato's and potato's near each other?
Something to do with blight.

[gonz]

[davyw1]

That is true.

[posie]

I'm sure I've read that on a post on here somewhere or at least somewhere out in cyberspace!

[gonz]

looks like I'm going to be doing some moving!   >:(

[Fork]

Last year my potatoes suffered terribly with blight.

My greenhouse full of tomatoes was literally a metre away with the door facing the potatoes......I had the best crop of tomatoes I ever had!

The gent in the next plot got potatoe blight and tomato blight too.Hid greenhouse was a horrible mess.

I suppose you could say I was very lucky.

[tim]

Same with us - it's the shelter that makes the difference.

[gonz]

We have planted the tomatoes in the ground and have made a sort of greenhouse around a frame with visqeen.  If they did get blight, could they still contaminate the potatoes.  I dont know how it spreads?

[littlegem]

in the books it says to plant the toms & pots in the same rotation, ie, together. but never follow each other the following year. i have never grown them together, i have never had blight, i just must be lucky

[Robert_Brenchley]

If you get blight on one, it'll spread to the other. Everything depends on the weather then; infection only spreads in wet weather.

[gonz]

Thanks for that.  I wasnt sure if the tomatoes were covered, we would be ok.  I dont really want to  have to dig them up and move them.  Dont know what to do now!!! 

[ceres]

I do what littlegem said, plant the nightshades together as a rotation.  Last year the toms were destroyed by blight, peppers some minor damage, potatoes absolutely fine.  Go figure!