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.
Pete C

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.

Probably blight. All of our allotment has been blighted, both our
greenhouses are rife. And it's very very sad. I presume you've been
growing tomatoes long enough to recognise blight? You get brown powdery
patches up the stem, and the tomatoes go mottled brown.

"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.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

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
Also to the west of London.

wrote:
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.

How are you disposing? I'm unsure what to do with mine.

On 11 Sep 2011 23:39:00 GMT, wrote:

wrote:
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.

How are you disposing? I'm unsure what to do with mine.

Bagging and taking to the local council dump.

Regards
JonH

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
Also to the west of London.- Hide quoted text -

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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..

"harry" wrote in message
...
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
Also to the west of London.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

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

In article ,
shazzbat wrote:
"harry" wrote in message
...

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.

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..

Spot on. I did the same for 20 years.

The only things that you need to burn are those with durable spores,
where the transmission is through the soil. And it doesn't help
for those, because there are always enough spores left in the soil
to restart the problem :-(


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

shazzbat wrote:
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.

I found the blight watch alerts weren't very useful, they didn't come in in
my area till after everyone on the allotment had lost their tomatoes.

And, let's be fair - if you get the alert, what are you going to do?

I have been confused whether to leave the greenhouse door open for air flow,
or if that will let spores in ... both greenhouses have been decimated,
anyhow. :-(

On Sep 12, 11:57*am, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:46:48 +0100, "shazzbat"





wrote:

"harry" wrote in message
....
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.

JonH wrote

"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.


We used to make such things and two years down the line throw it away
because we don't eat it, a bit like blackcurrant jam. That is why we have
replaced the currant bushes with cherry trees.
We just throw it all on the compost heap, green toms and all, it won't cause
any infection provided it rots.

--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

Bob Hobden wrote:
We used to make such things and two years down the line throw it away
because we don't eat it, a bit like blackcurrant jam.

Post me your jam!

In message , Bob Hobden
writes
JonH wrote

"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.


We used to make such things and two years down the line throw it away
because we don't eat it, a bit like blackcurrant jam. That is why we
have replaced the currant bushes with cherry trees.
We just throw it all on the compost heap, green toms and all, it won't
cause any infection provided it rots.


When we have green toms, we make pickled green tomatoes, they are yummy
:-)
--
Chris French

Since I presume no one has it in mind to close down the French wine industry, presumably they will still be able to get it???

Copper sulphate and hydrated lime, not exactly controlled chemicals. Better to sell it to people ready made up than them trying to make it themselves.