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Old 31-07-2007, 12:52 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Tomato Blight - Should I put plants in green wheely bin?


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Mark Radley writes:
| I wonder if it will cause anyone any problems if tomato plants with
| blight are put into the green wheely bin? (The council take this stuff
| away to make compost - is the compost sterilised somehow?)

It doesn't matter. Blight spores overwinter only in living material.
I compost mine, and have had no problems arising from that.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.