Blight free year

[goodlife]

Its been such a weird growing season this year.. ::) ::)
I can't believe but I still have my tomatoes outside...they are green and now full of green fruit.. ::)..some of them have FINALLY started ripening so I'm going to pick some fresh outdoor toms today.. :o
AND....couple of potato plants in buckets are growing too! GH toms are not looking bad neither..I've got some to pick from there too.. ::)
No doubt next year we are going to have snow in May and once that has melted away in June and new crops are finaly planted and growing the blight will hit instantly... ::)...unless the dreaded giant tsunami is going to wash everything away...but that would make it another blight free year again.. :-\

[goodlife]

[Unwashed]

I wish I could grow tomatoes, but the blight arrives every year in Newbury - heart-breaking, never again.  That said it was a good year in Newbury this year with the cool dry summer, with the first Smith Period second week of September and some folk have succeeded with toms in their greenhouses.  I do envy your success because toms are quite a staple for us, but other than the sweetcorn this year was very good indeed so I can't complain.

Snow in May then blight in June - ever the optimist! ;D

[small]

No blight here, but it's not usually a problem either - but my promising Red DoY potato plant from a volunteer has succumbed to frost - are your buckets indoors, Goodlife? You're not that far from me, and we've had several frosts already. Good job I fetched in my green toms to ripen on windowsills....

[goodlife]

I did lift the buckets indoors couple of weeks ago..my sweetcorn is touched by the frost, all leaves have gone brown now..but my outdoor tomatoes haven't been affected ??? I suspect they are much more shelted spot and have some micro climate thingy going on..it must be one of my big apple trees that is sheltering them.
All the years I've grown stuff here..and this is first blight free year that I've experienced...or it is the varieties that are showing the resistance. That outdoor tomato bed is trial for different blight resistant varieties...I just wish I would have planted them outdoors earlier ::)

[aj]

Me too; no blight at all.

Still got loads of toms ripening each day, indoors and out. And so many friends ditched their tom plants a month ago. Should have listened to me when I said to leave them be.  ::)

[goodlife]

I wonder if North of Africa has blight problems?...apparantely central England has received less rain this summer than some place in Africa..the name has gone 'walk abouts' from my head..it was in news not a long ago.
We did get sharp down pour yesterday..but now its all dry again.. ::) Hoses won't freeze as there is no water in them neither.. :D

[saddad]

We still have "Roma" and San Marzano outside with the "Auntie Madge"... picked about 3lbs on Monday. We don't normally miss the blight but have this time...  :)

[gwynleg]

I must protest. This is so unfair (who ever said life was meant to be fair?)!! I put in blight resistant tomatoes outdoors and in greenhouse and both got blight much earlier this summer!!

[cornykev]

My Tigerellas are still outside in the back garden, down to my last three plants with about 35+ green tommies on them.  ;)

[electric landlady]

No blight, for the first time ever!!  ;D ;D

But, terrible weather meant the plants didn't really grow and only just started ripening in the last month.  ???

Plus, an early frost last week zapped them all - pulled them up yesterday, salvaged the least frazzled of the green toms and am now googling for green tomato recipes - not chutney as I still have tons from last year...maybe soup this time...  ::)

So all in all, variable, but you live and learn.

[betula]

I have had a blight free year and have so many toms I have had to resort to composting some as I can't deal with anymore.

Will have loads of tomato plants in the compost I reckon LOL

[Trevor_D]

I lost the lot! And I sprayed!!

[betula]

That is heartbreaking.........it has happened to me and I was gutted :(

[saddad]

I have had a blight free year and have so many toms I have had to resort to composting some as I can't deal with anymore.

Will have loads of tomato plants in the compost I reckon LOL

Tomato seedlings are a great indicator that the soil is warm enough for corn and squash to be set out...   :)

[GrannieAnnie]

We just had a freak snow on Oct 29-30. New Jersey got 8 inches, lots of trees down, no electricity until Wed.( maybe) our daughter is saying so no heat indoors. I'd say tomato season is past here!

[goodlife]

GA...I've been reading about your freak weather over here.. :o It looked so weird in one of the photos..autumn colours on trees and snow on the ground.
Oh, I hope you are ok..have you got your woolies on?