On 6 Sep, 21:44, wrote:
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Jake wrote:

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.

That is true. *What isn't is the advice. *It's crap.

In the UK, blight does not current form viable, durable spores, and
is transmitted over the winter ONLY in live plants. *Composting
blighted material is perfectly safe. *There are some very solid
reasons for this - they may not remain true forever, but composting
will not change when and if it ceases to be the case.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

If you have a good fire going then you can burn the old tomato plants
a few at the time, and you can always use some old cooking oil to
boost the fire.
This atitude of taking any plant material that has died or is infected
by who knows what to the council recycling depot so it can come back
to un suspecting gardeners at a later date.
I'm sure that even though they get to higher temp. than you or I can
get in our heaps I am sure that there are some things that wont be
killed.
Also what a good way to get rid of your grass clipings after you have
treated your lavn with weed killer.
Happy gardening everyone.
David Hill