On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:00:40 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

In article ,
says...

Advice on how to deal with tomato blight seems to be to dig up and burn
infected plants.

Has anyone tried to set fire to a tomato?

Presumably if you dry the infected plants and fruit before burning them this
gives plenty of opportunity for the infection to be spread.
And also takes a very long time in this weather.

Not having an incinerator or a flame thrower I am not sure how to proceed.

Cheers

Dave R

Bundle them up in a black bin bag and take them to your local council
waste recycling centre. Most seem to have garden waste recycling bins
nowadays.

Whoa there neddy! The RHS recommend burying or burning; they say
"don't compost". If there's a danger in adding blighted
tomatoes/potatoes to your compost heap, might there not be a similar
danger in adding them to the green skip at your local tip? Someone
might well end up with the compost product.

It may not be "green" but may be better to bag it up and put it into
the "non-recyclable" skip along with general rubbish.