My outdoor tomatoes leaves and stems have all gone black and slimey, the fruit appears ok, is this Blight! or just rain damage?
Blight. If they've reached that stage then all you can do is harvet the fruit quickly before they get blighted too.
As Ceres says blight. Make sure that the plants are lifted and properly disposed of straight away as well.
Thanks All
i'll do that tonight
If you're quick, all is not lost! My plants have been hit - I've grubbed up several, including all of the Black Russian - but the fruit seems OK. I'm having my best tomato year since '06!
I pulled off most of the fruit when i uprooted the plants, these now also seem to have dveloped blight! can they still be eaten?
I wouldn't eat any fruit that's visibly blighted purely because I don't think it would taste very good. I don't think it would be harmful (happy to be corrected though!) but if it's going brown and soft it's on it's way to rotting.
QuoteI wouldn't eat any fruit that's visibly blighted purely because I don't think it would taste very good. I don't think it would be harmful (happy to be corrected though!)
As many of you know I like to experiment with gardening processes/techniques and I have noticed something you might be interested in.
I had a couple of tomato plants that were blighted and I didn't remove them (as I should have done!) and what I have noticed is;
The tomatoes that had formed prior to the blight taking hold are all blighted, but the tomatoes that subsequently formed after the plants were blighted are producing non blighted fruit. That is the fruit coming from new growth after the event is OK.
I don't know if this peculiar to these plants or if in fact plants do outgrow the blight ???
What do you think?