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Talkback: Tomato and potato blight

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The tomatoes in our greenhouse were destroyed by blight last week. This is the first time ever, that we have had blight. Last weekend was spent making all sorts of chutney from the green tomatoes, and we currently have more jars than most supermarkets. Would have been a bumper crop.
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  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    My outdoor tomatoes have had a touch of blight this year.The last two years the blight was worse, so I think I have got away lightly this year.I too have been making chutney with the green tomatoes this week.I love this time of year.
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    No blight at all on my outside tomatoes after two blighty years - gloriana!
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    I've still got Cara growing. Masses of new stems came after the drought conditions broke. not a sign of blight yet.
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    i have lots of green toms, could i have your recipe for chutney please? Bev
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    After the debacle with blight in the last two years in Bristol I'm pleased to report none and very good yields of potatoes and tomatoes. I probably will not have any green ones as they all seem to be ripening well on the plants outside but for people who do - have you seen the film "Fried Green Tomatoes" about a cafe which does just that?
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    I started my Tom's later this year, and so far I've got plenty of ripening fruit, with (fingers crossed) no blight yet. We'll have to wait to see how the spuds have fared.
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    a lot of my toms are still green,a lot red also,not a bit of blight despite the conditions,but did remove a lot of foliage for circulation of air.x
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    We managed to have just a little potato blight on one of 36 new allottments and this was quickly taken out and destroyed before it got going. Tomato blight struck 2 weeks ago on all tomatoes growing on sight. All where quickly destroyed
    With regard to the query on hanging tomatoes.I grew 3 Tom Thumb tumbling in a hanging bag at home. These have done exceptionally well, and are still yielding. Had one and a half kilos and about a kilo still to come.
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    I can honestly say that the only blight we had on our tomatoes was on one plant in the greenhouse. Always a big nasty brown rotting patch apprears on the underside of the tomato and gets bigger. I've now destroyed this plant and all the others seem fine. The outside ones are perfect albeit green!

    No blight on the spuds but what a pathetic crop! Just not enough rain this summer.
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    We've had problems with blight in our part of Gloucestershire for the past few years. However after the very hard winter I had a hunch it would be worth giving a main crop of spuds a go and I've just harvested the most fantastic crop of King Edwards and the Tomato plants have been blight free. I'm sure this is, in part, due to the hard winter. It's an ill wind....
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