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Title: Tomato Blight Questions
Post by: Duke Ellington on August 30, 2008, 10:39:15

I have recently discovered tomato blight. I have dug up the plants and bagged them up for the bin.
Questions:~

1. Can the healthy looking tomatoes be used ?

2. Do I have to do something to the soil in the raised bed that the tomatoes were growing in as a form of after treatment?

3. Are blighted tomatoes poisonous?

Thanks Duke

Title: Re: Tomato Blight Questions
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on August 30, 2008, 11:20:23

Your toms are OK to use, but any with brown marks will be sprouting mould if you don't use them fast. The soil will be fine.

Title: Re: Tomato Blight Questions
Post by: gordonsveg on August 31, 2008, 16:43:40

:'( :'( Juat lost all my outdoor toms 18 plants and 5 different variaties(??).Its a good job i have a few in the G.H. Next year i will try a plastic G.H just for my toms that would have gone outside.(bet we dont have any blight then)

Title: Tomato Blight here now
Post by: Bean_Queen on August 31, 2008, 18:54:25

The blight has just arrived in Norfolk. Coinciding with ripening of tomatoes. Bummer.

My Sungold are fine (touch wood quick).
Tamina & SubArctic Plenty are turning brown (blight)

I just picked 12 lbs of green tomatoes to make salsa, sauce, or something (Google for Green Tomato Recipes)

Title: Re: Tomato Blight Questions
Post by: kippers garden on August 31, 2008, 19:40:02

I've had the same problem here in Leicester. I've bagged all my tom plants up and i have three trays of green toms in my coleframe hoping they will ripen.

What do i do now?...i've removed every bit of tomato plant from the patch...do i dig it over as normal now and do i have to disinfect my fork and the canes that held the tomatoes up?

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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Duke Ellington on August 30, 2008, 10:39:15