Vicky wrote

Bob Hobden wrote:
Oddly, all of the potatoes on the allotment seem to have blight, but the
tomatoes, which normally go first, are all up still (not mine, I'm too
nervous to put mine out and they are still hiding in pots in the
greenhouse!)

Yes, that is what has happened to us. Yet I noticed one of the new
allotment
gardeners has had half of her Toms destroyed. I sprayed the rest with BM
for
her so here's hoping it stops it spreading to the rest.
Is this yet another new strain of blight, because it's usually the Toms
that
go first IME.

Could just be that everyone has started using blight-resistant tomatoes.
Asked one guy and he said he took seeds from something on the allotment
last year, so if it survived last year and came true this year, it may
well be a havily blight-resistant.

My allotment-strain is Harbinger, which I /think/ is resistant, but not
strongly resistant, iirc.

I hate to spoil the party but the allotment gardener with 6 allotments who
uses various sprays has got blight on his blight resistant tomatoes. Also
noticed some of ours are looking like they are succumbing too despite being
sprayed with Bordeaux Mixture and being totally resistant in the past. This
has got to be something new, a new strain.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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