Blight-free toms

[dave45]

This year I planted 4 varieties, some in the greenhouse some outside:

Alicante - blighted inside and out
Red cherry - inside - survived and cropping ok but looks ill (yellow leaves etc)
Yellow pear - largely blight-free inside and out and cropping nicely (from Bulgarian seeds from a friend), but they take ages to ripen.
Rila - grew far too fast too quick (over 3 m tall) and broke. Small crops of large toms and beginning to blight... these toms are grapefruit-sized in Bulgaria !

blighted toms have been right next to the yellow pear toms and the infection hasn't taken hold in the yellows.

So I am coming to the conclusion that the variety makes all the difference... and that the yellow pear tomato suits my location here in Lancashire... any other views on blight-free tom varieties?

[jampot]

i grew gardeners delight this year but inside the green house this time (as they are usually out side) all seesm to be blight free -fingers crossed - and cropping heavily

[Peggy Sue]

A lot is said about blight resitent spuds but you don't hear the same marketing on tomatoes, I wonder why?

My 3 varieties are clearly different.
Roma- bush plums- affected worse and first, and also really hard work to strip leaves when you try to reduce the damage
Money Maker, next to fall foul but didn't really affect the fruit at all
Gardeners Delight- see most resistent , very little on stems and v slow to advance (and I love them best!)

All wer overcrowded and ignored for way too long, but have have had equal neglect followed by leaf stripping and spraying with mares tail spray after the blight has struck. I think the GDs were in the worst position (under the rampant marrows by the time I got my backside into gear on this)

Its the first year I've ever had blight so a learning curve

[Odsox]

A lot is said about blight resitent spuds but you don't hear the same marketing on tomatoes, I wonder why?

T&M have a couple of varieties that they claim are blight resistant, Legend and Ferline.
I'm growing Legend this year, but not again ... they are a bush variety (I prefer cordons) and they have so much fruit that the plants have collapsed under the weight.
No sign of blight on them though but the Tigerella next to them have had a few leaves blighted.
Unfortunately, no sign of flavour on the Legend either.

[Peggy Sue]

[quote="OdsoxI'm growing Legend this year, but not again ... they are a bush variety (I prefer cordons) and they have so much fruit that the plants have collapsed under the weight.
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Got to say I grew bush for the first time this year thinking- Great no leaf stripping or staking. Rubbish! Blight arrives you have to strip the leaves and its really hard because they are much more flimsey and hard to snap them off. And yes they do need staking because they collapse!

[Cheezy]

Well I grew some new varieties this year.

Cuor Di Bue (Seeds of Italy " as recommended by Raymond Blanc"), well we think it's not very tasty, and it was the first one to show blight. Which as it turns out was a good thing it spurred me into action of appying BM, and devising a rain cover over the rest of the 8 plants I had against a wall. The other plants now under shelter and with BM on are all good (Black Crim, Gard Del.)

THe ones in the Greenhouse do not have blight (Feline,Gard. Del. Black Krim, Brandywine, Cour Di Bue), and usually don't. However they have got some sort of mildew attack.

But the impressive ones are the bush variety in pots. Red Alert as recommended by Peter Seabrook. They are not F1 so the seeds can be collected and sown next year, the tomatoes are a good size (3cm ish diamater), a great taste, and they have had only 1 treatment of BM, but other wise have no protection and are producing 100's of tom's.

[Spuddle]

I grew Alicante this year and lost the lot to blight.
I think I shall try Gardeners Delight next year.

[Mrs Moustoir]

I grew Fantasio from seed this year and with a couple of sprayings of Bordeaux Mixture, the six plants are still with me and cropping well - unlike the supermarket cherry tomato and Moneymaker plants I had which are on the bonfire pile ready for their Viking funeral. The Fantasio seed was quite expensive but I'd definitely grow them again - blight resistant, good sized and tasty toms.

An old fashioned French beefsteak variety also did quite well for me - St Pierre.