TOMATO BLIGHT

[midnightvelvet]

Suddenly, the other day, all my tomatoes started to wilt and the leaves kinda curled up and started dying off.  This seemed to quickly happen to all of them and after a quick google, I think it was blight.

Very sadly, I had to destroy them all yesterday as well as a green pepper plant which also seemed to have succumbed.  :'(   I still have one plant in the porch and the tumblers in a hanging basket so fingers crossed that they survive...hmp!  ::)

[midnightvelvet]

[hippydave]

same here watered in the morning all looked fine came from work in the evening to water again and all the stems were black and the leaves were wilting, by today the fruit was all brown and blistered so ive lost the lot for the 2nd year running :(

[telboy]

Very sad news for both of you.
Blight seems to be enemy No. 1 these days & there's so little you can do. I don't grow main crop spuds any more. I've just checked on my toms. & fingures crossed so far, but with this weather - Smiths periods must be rampant------
>:(

[Duke Ellington]

Sorry to hear about your tomatoes...
What part of the country are you Hippydave and Midnight Velvet?

Duke

[hippydave]

im in Retford  Nottinghamshire, i got blight last year and replaced all the soil used jayes fluid to clean all the the inside of the greenhouse and thought that i got away with it this year as the toms looked great with a very lot of toms on.

[lewic]

Do potatoes 'attract' blight, or make it more likely that your tomatoes will get it?

Am asking as I have a few maincrop potatoes left in the ground, but would rather dig them up and give them to friends/Freecyclers if leaving them there is putting the tomatoes at risk!

[Sinbad7]

Your tats are just as susceptible as your toms to get blight

[GrannieAnnie]

AFter all that work to lose the whole crop! That is harsh and sad. Our condolences.
I just pulled a rotten tom off, the whole center was dark and mushy and am wondering if that is some type of blight as have never seen one like that before.

[lushy86]

Such a shame, all your hard work  :(

Lushy x

[amphibian]

I wasn't aware peppers could get late blight, Phytophthora infestans, it makes me doubt you are dealing with late blight at all.

A worry to us all is that a new blight, Phytophthora capsici, was discovered in 2004, it can infect peppers, cucmbers, melons, squash, turnips, tomatoes, spinach, chard, beetroot and aubergines.

But as far as I know it has not been found in the UK to date.

Where in the UK are you?

[midnightvelvet]

I'm in the West Midlands, Nr Birmingham.  Never happened to me before so came as a shock...up till now my biggest problem has been slug-o-mania!!  Even nematodes didn't help...seems ed to attract more if anything!!  :'(

[amphibian]

Don't suppose you took any pictures of your infected crops? I'm particularly interested in seeing the infected pepper plant.