"harry" wrote in message
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On Sep 11, 10:38 pm, wrote:
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:19:39 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:





"Pete C" wrote .

Not been to allotment for a few days. Went this morning expecting to
pick a
lot of toms. A sad sight met my eyes, all tom plants dead/dying and
fruit
rotting! A wander around the site showed similar on almost every plot.
One
lady said she thought there was a cold night last week.....but frost? Am
depressed....all that hard work wasted.

Not frost but Blight, everyone on our site has lost all their Toms except
us, again. Must really **** them off. I spray ours with Bordeaux Mixture
and
have done it twice so far and we also only grow Blight resistant
varieties.
(Ferline, Fantasio and Legend)
I noticed at RHS Wisley this week they spray all their potatoes with BM
too
but a sign beside them said " Sprayed with Bordeaux Mixture which will
shortly be taken off the market" for goodness sake is this a policy
designed
to stop us growing any food ourselves. And yes we have stocked up.

Has just kicked in here too. However, I have made two 5 kg batches of
green tomato chutney before the blight showed.

Tomato material is now being segregated for disposal away from the
garden. I'd burn it, but the guy two doors away is an arse about
smoke.

Regards
JonH
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Waste of time.The spores are everywhere. It is the temperature/
humidity triggers it. I just compost mine even if blighted. Don't
have any more problems than average..

You can always register with fight against blight/bligh****ch. You tell it
your postcode and how many acres!! of spuds you're growing, and it gives you
a warning if blight has struck your area, or if there's a near miss or full
smith period.

Telling it you're growing 0.1 acres makes it work.

Steve