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Suggestions please
"Judith in France" wrote On Aug 11, 8:53 am, "Bob Hobden" wrote: From our experience a lot of those fruit will develop blight as they ripen, and rot. An old trick was to place them in a drawer with a very ripe banana which gives of a gas which ripens other fruit. It's why you shouldn't keep bananas in dish with other fruit. Spray the plants with Bordeaux Mixture next year towards the end of July and keep them sprayed as the rain washes it off, needs doing about every two or three weeks IME. There are also some blight resistant varieties available and they are resistant (Fantasio, Ferline, Legend). We have proved it with Ferline when a few years ago they didn't get develop blight when everything around them did. These may not be the varieties you want to grow but better some home-grown tomatoes than none. Interesting Bob, Edward is reading this over my shoulder, I guess next year he will be growing Feline. I seem to remember reading a few years ago that there are other resistant varieties available in France. Ferline (T & M), normal sized round tomato, looks just like the ones one buys. Fantasio is a little bigger. Legend is a beefsteak variety, but strangely, on much smaller plants. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
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