My guess is that blight alerts will be thick on the ground before the month is out.
Check my sprayer tomorrow!
if blight is such a problem for tomato and potato crops with any fungicide that can stop it; restricted to professional growers and no real organic alternative. Since most grower here growing on allotments where you can not depend on you neighbor using good anti-blight sanitation methods, such as burn infected plants and preventing over winter of potatoes. seem like best option is not grow tomatoes or potato crops and concentrate on more useful and less prone vegetable plants.
If I could buy day fresh Sungold tomatoes I might not grow them, until then I'll have to. I need them for one of my top-selling lines, as well as my plate.
Smith Period alert for today in East Midlands!
Has anyone ever had an success with any of the organic homemade blight prevention methods. Such as nettle tea or boiling up mares tail?
Quote from: NightWish on June 15, 2016, 10:27:50
Has anyone ever had an success with any of the organic homemade blight prevention methods. Such as nettle tea or boiling up mares tail?
In a word, no. I don't bother spraying anything at all now, nothing I've tried makes a jot of difference. I pick off the affected leaves daily to keep the plants going for as long as possible, but I've lost whole beds of crops literally overnight, foliage just melting! I now only grow early potatoes so I'm pretty much guaranteed a crop before blight season and then re-plant the space quickly to get late season/overwinter crops.
Absolutely hammering-down here for the last 20 minutes. Haven't seen rain like this since I lived in Portugal, it's so intense.
Tomato plants outside the front of the house are being beaten down.
The local River Trent has risen over 1 metre in the last 2 days!
Time to get the Ark ready!!
Well in South West Birmingham we have had 2 inches of rain in the last 24 hours which makes a grand total of 4.5 inches in 5 days -- and its still raining heavy!. I have been trying to plant out my squashes, pumpkin, courgette and sweetcorn for the last 5 days but they are still stuck in root-trainers behind my greenhouse. Probably just as well I didn't get them out as they would have been battered to death on the more exposed allotment site.
I had a blight watch alert two days ago for my area but haven't been able to get over there to check them out - would need a boat! They have probably all floated away by now. Major risk is them rotting blight or no blight. When we had the wet summer several years ago the water table was so high that they just rotted in the ground.
Should I plant rice??