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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: ruffmeister on August 14, 2007, 21:29:10

Title: Blight - The fightback
Post by: ruffmeister on August 14, 2007, 21:29:10
Hey there,

as you are aware blight has devesated our tomatoes and has killed the majority of the plants, however cutting the dead material out and allowing new growth to form has rescued the day. As we picked the first sucessful fruits.

Click here to see pictures of the Blight Fightback (http://lottieblogs.co.uk/Augw2.aspx)

As you can see there is a lot of blight still there but its not spreading and  eadible fruits are beginning to be plentiful.

Other news this week is, the magnitude of pumpkins, onion harvests, a major weed, and continued harvests.

Regards
Lottieblogs
Title: Re: Blight - The fightback
Post by: saddad on August 14, 2007, 21:52:55
Doing great...
I eat a lot of cabbage like that as well!
;D
Title: Re: Blight - The fightback
Post by: Emagggie on August 14, 2007, 22:31:29
Well that fills me with hope! Went to check on things on Friday (not been able to get to plot much last week) to find the dastardly blight on my toms too. Tried to do a damage limitation exercise although I yanked out the worst affected. Maybe it wont be as bad as I expect. :-\
Title: Re: Blight - The fightback
Post by: ruffmeister on August 16, 2007, 20:15:23
Quote from: Emagggie on August 14, 2007, 22:31:29
Well that fills me with hope! Went to check on things on Friday (not been able to get to plot much last week) to find the dastardly blight on my toms too. Tried to do a damage limitation exercise although I yanked out the worst affected. Maybe it wont be as bad as I expect. :-\

has it only just struck, thats quite late
Title: Re: Blight - The fightback
Post by: Emagggie on August 17, 2007, 10:17:04
I'm thinking maybe I missed the early signs as I have been rushing up to pick stuff and not spendind too much time on my plot (plus the fact that I didn't know too much about it). Still. I'll know so much better next year and I plan to do things very differently. ;D