Blight

[Digeroo]

Been having a look round the site and there a number of tomatoes with suspicious looking brown patches on the stems fruits and leaves.  Too dry at the moment for it to spread much.

All potatoes seem fine.  No messages from Blight Watch.   Decided to take off the haulms just in case.

Are others having problems?

[Digeroo]

[saddad]

I had a few suspicious looking charlotte... at the end of the line so I dug them out and they were fine, touchwood none of my outdoor toms are showing any signs... and as the season is cooling down it's less likely to spread if there is any about...

[5rod]

hi all
yes blight is all around. down here on south coast are allotments
we all got court out,

[sparrow]

Nothing so far over here, though the red dots on the map are getting closer. I'd like another month please, thank you. Just to get the Desiree to a useable size and to harvest some tomatoes.

[Jayb]

Here too 

At first glance the plants look healthy enough, but at the far end...

[tricia]

No sign of it here yet, but I've stripped most of the leaves from my tomato plants. It has been very dry but wet weather is forecast so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the trusses will ripen before the blight arrives. This is the first time in four years that I have had any unaffected plants after mid-July.

Tricia

[chriscross1966]

Touchwood OK so farfor me, certainly way better than last year.... Still got three blight-proof varieties in (Sarpo Mira, Setanta and Cara) as well as some that are decidedly not (PFA, Congo, Markies) plus a self-raised cross between Sarpo Axona and PFA....the Markies and Congo will be coming out soon as they're dieing down now (a bit early for Congo but ho-hum) I'll get the Setanta out then too as it's pretty much done, the Sarpo's, PFA and Cara can have another week or two, and I'll have a firkle under the provisionally named "Western Fir Apple" too.... all the already harvested spuds (Kestrel, Arran Victory, King Edward and my own-raised "Great Western Rodent"  salad potato) have been fine.

[Jayb]

This is the first time in four years that I have had any unaffected plants after mid-July.

Me too.

Potatoes left standing are Sarpo Axona, Sarpo Mira and a few from Tom Wagner's TPS potato varieties, he has quite a few varieties bred for Late Blight resistance. One in particular is looking good and healthy here, Tollocan Fiesta. Others holding their own are Fiesta Gold, Skagit Magic, Mura and a few more I can't remember the names of at the moment I'm not sure if they are all still listed on his site www.tomwagnerseeds.com, might be worth asking him though. I've also a couple of my own crosses Sarpo Kifli x potatoes, again grown from TPS which, although they have some damage to the leaves, are keeping on growing.  Valor, Sarpo Kifli and Blue Danube were killed.

Blight is affecting some of the tomatoes, I'm stripping off leaves of anything that looks iffy.

[realfood]

Here in Glasgow, almost no blight which is amazing so late in the year.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Negresse still looking good. I might even get a crop at this rate.