Blight on tomatoes now.

[Millymollymandy]

I bloody give up. these are the ones in the veg patch near where the blighted spuds were. My ones in pots quite a way away with my house in between are OK for the moment.

Just as I was having yet another go at trying to grow a non-cherry (up until now they have always had green collar and been inedible).

Have picked off all the infected leaves but I doubt that will help for long.

I really don't think it is worth bothering any more in Brittany - there always seems to be blight here. I'm so fed up.

[Gert]

How frustrating

[red]

[Millymollymandy]

It's soul destroying when that happens isn't it - is it worth treating them with Bordeaux mixture or has it gone too far - worth a try - I found it quite good at halting stuff in the past. Perhaps next year grow the toms well away from the potatoes

I thought of that but how do I keep it off the toms? I don't want blue tomatoes! I have stopped them out and picked off some more leaves (hope they were ones I missed before and not new bits) and if it gets worse over the next few days I'm whipping them off to ripen indoors on a sunny windowsill.

[Urban Ayisha]

i'm expecting blight this summer, what is bordeaux mixture, can u get it easily and is it 'organic'? will be gutted if i get blight again this year!!

[Urban Ayisha]

blackcurrants can get blight? what the...?! i think next year im gonna think things through properly (i seem to suggest this to myself every year!) and grow toms in a polytunnel, thats supposed to help

[Millymollymandy]

If you mix it with skimmed milk you can use a lot less B. Mix - can't remember the quantities but the milk helps the mix to stick. I have posted it somewhere here but it's my hubby who does it so he knows the amounts off my heart. If you would like to know I will ask him when he's properly awake!

[foodinistar]

he knows the amounts off my heart.

Ah, sweet!

[Millymollymandy]

lol !!!

[Millymollymandy]

Got rid of all the plants because the blight was spreading and I got fed up with picking off diseased leaves! Now they're on the windowsill in the hope they will ripen. The organic Gardeners Delight was a waste of money - it only had about 3 fruit worth trying to ripen as most of them didn't get pollinated and the plants (there are 2 more in pots) mostly only have one vine per truss instead of the usual 2-3 on GD. The organic peppers that I bought all have wiered mishapen fruit as well. Harumph, won't bother wasting my money on 'bio' plants any more and the pollinating insects obviously were far more interested in non-organic Premio F1 which had plenty of fruit!

[foodinistar]

My toms got blight last year, the first year of growing them seriously (the year before - 2007! - I just let them do what they wanted, and they got blight), so I picked them off and put them on the windowsill. Only a tiny few showed signs of blight ,and they were chucked as soon as known about, and only a few, the very small and immature ones, didn't ripen, so good luck MMM. I was advised to leave the calyx on so as not run the risk of damaging the tomato but that advice is too late for you if you've picked them already.

[Millymollymandy]

I just had to google what the calyx was but yes, no probs, I've left them as whole vines for the moment. All we need now is some sunshine!

[Millymollymandy]

The biggest one on the windowsill is turning red!

[Millymollymandy]

I ate it, it was rather disappointing and floury. Oh well I can use them in cooking or grilled and they should be OK. Just had a couple of the rather tiny and wrinkled G. Delight's that came from the blighted plant, lovely flavour! but there were only a few formed on that plant when the blight hit.

Anyway the ripening process is miles ahead on the windowsill than it is on the same (one remaining!) plant outside! That's probably cos it's been warmer indoors most of the last week than outside.

[Millymollymandy]

OMG I have just used an apostrophe in a plural!!!!!!! I blame everyone else as it absolutely drives me nut's when people do that but it must be catching!