Green Tomatoe chutney!!! is the answer to your tomato plants affected by blight, at least something will come out of all our hard work raising these plants!! I finally found out that you can use your tomatoes, they ok to eat and I guess as they'll be cooked even better. (needless to say only the healthy looking green tomatoes!) I had mistaken this for a forum where you get answers to your questions! Not quite what I was looking for however it is very helpful in other ways. So happy cooking!
Hope it works out, Belleandrose. I've just given up on my outdoor toms too and am going down the green chutney route - I've seen a recipe for green tomato cake that looks good though, however counterintuitive. It's worth a try!
Re concerns about green tomatoes from blighted plants: they are fine to use for chutney; also quite nice stir-fried with sliced onions and/or apples to serve with pork etc. I find that the blight is stopped in the fridge so as long as the toms are not too bad I just cut off the brown bits and put all the good parts in a bag or dish in the fridge until I can use them.
Sad though. I too had a good crop starting to ripen, then suddenly blight hit and I had to remove the lot. My Sungold in another growbag is still OK though; what a wonderful plant that is, the first and last to fruit and so delicious straight off the plant and pretty in salads.
we can only persivere, so far I haven't got the blight shear luck I suppose, I only grew Alicante this year, slow to ripen though so I am thinking"green Tom chutney" but will ripen some on the widowsill,hope everyone manages some good fruit.
When I was in the Black Forest last summer I noticed that all the gardeners there grew their outdoor tomatoes under a sort of roof - just poles with plastic sheeting at the top and open sides. I wondered if it was to combat blight - the Black Forest is very rainy, so I imagine it must be a problem there. I tried the same thing this year, having lost the previous two years' crops to blight. I don't know if it was just that this year was a better year, but I had almost no blight at all on my toms this year, so I think it might work. It keeps the rain off the leaves, so stops the spores of blight spreading so easily, I suppose.
greeting all from usa we get blight in my area sometimes but since proactively spray with docyli (sp) the blight passes me by. As for copper do not waste you money blight has become immune to it's effect years ago so don't waste you money on it.
I ripen tomatoes once off the plant by popping them into a bowl with a slightly over-ripe banana (freckly stage!), the ethylene gas given off by the tomato does the trick !
I have grown tomatoes this year for the first time. They are outdoors, cherry, lots of them but they are not turning red just BLACK PLEASE CAN ANY ONE ADVISE ME WHATS WRONG.
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is the answer to your tomato plants affected by blight, at least something will come out of all our hard work raising these plants!!
I finally found out that you can use your tomatoes, they ok to eat and I guess as they'll be cooked even better. (needless to say only the healthy looking green tomatoes!)
I had mistaken this for a forum where you get answers to your questions! Not quite what I was looking for however it is very helpful in other ways.
So happy cooking!
Sad though. I too had a good crop starting to ripen, then suddenly blight hit and I had to remove the lot. My Sungold in another growbag is still OK though; what a wonderful plant that is, the first and last to fruit and so delicious straight off the plant and pretty in salads.