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tomatoes not looking good

comp13comp13 Posts: 58
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 Hello guys, please can you look at my tomatoes and see if you have any idea why they are dying. Should I quickly take off the healthy ones now so they all don't die?

 

Thanks

Vivienne

Amateur vegetable gardener with dreams of a bigger garden one day. 
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,134

    Afraid that looks like a blight-type condition - lots of them about this year - the conditions have been perfect for it. The appearance of black blotches on the stems is a real indcator.

    The fruits look as if they're changing colour so I'd remove them all - keeping them on the trusses if you can -  discard any blight affected fruits - and place the sound ones indoors in the warm.  Most of them will ripen.  It's what I've had to do with mine.

    Take up the plants and bag and bin them.

     


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • comp13comp13 Posts: 58

    okay thanks so you don't think it's anything we did? Also what do you mean by truss?

    Amateur vegetable gardener with dreams of a bigger garden one day. 
  • comp13comp13 Posts: 58

    ok got it. Probably not enough ventilation, another lesson to learn for next year.

    Amateur vegetable gardener with dreams of a bigger garden one day. 
  • comp13comp13 Posts: 58

    okay thanks so you don't think it's anything we did? Also what do you mean by truss?

    Amateur vegetable gardener with dreams of a bigger garden one day. 
  • comp13comp13 Posts: 58

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     what about these parsnips, do you think the blight got them too? thanks for your help.

    Amateur vegetable gardener with dreams of a bigger garden one day. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,134

    Tomato blight only affects members of the solanum family (tomatoes, potatoes etc). 

    It won't affect parsnips.  But those parsnips should be planted in the ground.  You won't get decent roots growing them in shallow containers.  They need a minimum  18" depth of soil.


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • comp13comp13 Posts: 58

    Thanks for that really appreciate the advice.

    Amateur vegetable gardener with dreams of a bigger garden one day. 
  • VrystaatVrystaat Posts: 50

    so disappointed this year. My apple tree yielded 17 good and healthy-looking apples last year. This year there have been about 50 apples, and only about 6 edible. Either the birds have had them or theres marks on them The leaves are very poor and rusty looking.I rent the property, so am unable to chop it down. Any suggestions?image

  • WelshonionWelshonion Posts: 3,114
    karools, why do you want to chop the tree down? The crops trees produce vary from year to year and it really is extreme to chop down a tree because you are disappointed with the yield this year.



    Gardening is all about optimism; next year the apples will be better.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,134

    Apples with marks on them will still be mainly edible - the quest for supermarket perfection is something that even supermarkets are giving up.


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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