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Please tell me this isn't blight

Last post 27-08-2009 5:44 PM by catymck. 14 replies.

• 08/08/2009 04:27 PM
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,977	Reply | Contact Though I am sure it is. I fear the worst  http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg218/Miranda_broughton/stem.jpg http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg218/Miranda_broughton/fruit.jpg http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg218/Miranda_broughton/foliage.jpg

• 08/08/2009 04:36 PM	In reply to
  BB Location: Hereford Joined on: 12 May 2009 Posts: 573	Reply | Contact Oh no Miranda!!! It looks like the dreaded blight. Is it just one plant which is affected? BB

• 08/08/2009 04:40 PM	In reply to
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,977	Reply | Contact About ten plants so far, BB :(

• 08/08/2009 04:45 PM	In reply to
  BB Location: Hereford Joined on: 12 May 2009 Posts: 573	Reply | Contact That is really bad luck Miranda. Can you salvage the rest? BB

• 08/08/2009 05:18 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200	Reply | Contact  That doesn't look very good Miranda, I hope you can save the rest of the plants. sue1002

• 08/08/2009 06:28 PM	In reply to
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact  Oh, what a shame! Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 08/08/2009 10:15 PM

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  Figwort Location: Peterborough Joined on: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 258

  Reply | Contact Miranda I've managed to protect/save most of my crop by spraying with Dithane - but it may be too late for your spuds. The other thing to do is to cut off all the affected foliage and burn it - otherwise the spores will affect the tubers in the ground - and if you've ever seen/smelt/eaten a blighted potato you'll know it's not pretty! Good luck!  There are never any problems in gardening - just opportunities! Geoff Hodge www.gardenforum.demon.co.uk

• 09/08/2009 05:19 PM	In reply to
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,977	Reply | Contact Thanks, everyone. It's tomatoes that are affected, figwort, but the advice goes for toms as well. Well, we've sprayed and are hoping that it won't spread to all the plants. Fingers crossed.

• 09/08/2009 05:26 PM

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  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,977

  Reply | Contact Hm, posted before I'd finished writing that last one. The plants are in various spots round the garden, so hopefully the fungus hasn't spread everywhere yet. Got some in two greenhouses at the garden, some in a greenhouse at home, some in the ground at the garden and some in pots here at home. All in all, must be getting on for 80+ plants. Should count them, really. Never meant to have as many as that but after the first sowing did very poorly, I started another lot, double the number and they all germinated. Then, I thought I have a go at cuttings and all those took as well, so that gave us another 16 plants. Managed to give some away, but still had loads.

• 09/08/2009 08:28 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200	Reply | Contact I'll keep my fingers crossed for you too Miranda.  Is it the ones up at the garden that are affected?  The ones that are under cover in the greenhouses should be more protected against picking it up.  sue1002

• 10/08/2009 09:38 PM	In reply to
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,977	Reply | Contact Thanks Sue. Fingers crossed

• 10/08/2009 11:24 PM	In reply to
  richardpeeej Location: Leicester Joined on: 22 May 2009 Posts: 810	Reply | Contact That's bad news Miranda I hope you can salvage the rest of them somehow. Richard

• 11/08/2009 05:09 PM

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  bogweevil Location: Joined on: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 2,043

  Reply | Contact Better to have fewer plants, group them together for easier spraying and keep a mini-sprayer handy close-by charged with copper or dithane and treat thoroughly every 10-14 days from June until it all goes mushy. Having followed this sage advice myself, I have still found a few spots on my spuds despite a new sprayer capable of generating a mighty mist of spray. I am picking off affected bits pronto.   Boggy Beware the bat-eared bogweevil

• 11/08/2009 05:42 PM	In reply to
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,977	Reply | Contact Thanks, Boggy. We used a copper-based spray in the end and doused everything.Will spray again in 10 days or so. Didn't mean to have as many plants, but we both like tomatoes very much and I bottle them to use over winter.

• 27/08/2009 05:44 PM

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  catymck Location: surrey Joined on: 12 Mar 2009 Posts: 40

  Reply | Contact I got the dreaded blight on my outdoor tomatoes about three weeks ago.  I chopped off as much of it as I could and got rid of one plant that was particularly bad and sprayed with Bordeaux mix.  I brought in the green fruits from this one and they are ripening on the widowsill and seem to be ok. So far it doesn't seem to have spread any more outside and the fruits are ripening - fingers crossed.