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Tomatoes... Fruits and plants both in bother
dpatel2130
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Help please.. Got tomatoes in my raised bed up to last week the plants and fruits looked healthy but all of sudden fruits and plants looks like dying. Can I wait or remove the plants? Some of the tomatoes got rotten. 
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Cut the trusses of tomatoes off and put them somewhere warm and hopefully they will ripen.
They will be fine to eat - if they ripen
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Cut and remove all of the fruit bearing trusses of the infected plant and make use of the healthy-looking green tomatoes in a recipe that requires cooking (eg chutney, fried tomato slices etc). Do this asap.
If even a tiny bit of blight reaches the fruit then it will rot before it will ripen.
You can safely dispose of the infected plants in your compost heap - the blight fungus will be killed off by the winter frost.
Just make sure that there are no hosts nearby that could help the disease to over winter. These hosts include plants in the nightshade family (potatoes, peppers, aubergines etc).
For example, an infected potato tuber could stay dormant in the soil during winter only to infect your crops early next summer when it starts to sprout new growth.