I would pick any that are starting to ripen, as they'll colour up indoors. Really green ones may not. The blight may have reached them already, in which case they'll start showing symptoms soon, but it's worth a try.
Green Magpie - Sungold will split, regardless. One of the traits of the variety. I stopped growing them, a bit too sweet for my taste, but I used to harvest a tad early to avoid the splitting.
Liz - there's no killing the spores, per se. Burn or bury. A couple of leaves in the compost won't hurt. Tomato fungal spores of any description are only really a hazard to the next crop if the spores make it onto the new foliage.
Fungal spores enter the garden on the breeze. There's no stopping or avoiding them. All you can do is try to minimise their effects via the sort of housekeeping Dove mentioned above.
One thing I did that probably helped is every week or so I went through the plants and picked off any unhealthy-looking leaves, especially lower ones. This hleps to keep the plants ventilated, especially the bush ones. They are almost leafless now. I have to admit there are a few blight-looking tomatoes now, but so many good ones that I no longer care, it's the end of the season.
Good housekeeping, GM. Towards the end of the season, when the fruit is (hopefully) ripening, the plant itself has next to no involvement in the fruit's progress. It has done its job.
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I would pick any that are starting to ripen, as they'll colour up indoors. Really green ones may not. The blight may have reached them already, in which case they'll start showing symptoms soon, but it's worth a try.
Unfortunately the first leaves etc that we removed we had conposted any ideas on if this the spores will die if with any pesticides?
Green Magpie - Sungold will split, regardless. One of the traits of the variety. I stopped growing them, a bit too sweet for my taste, but I used to harvest a tad early to avoid the splitting.
Liz - there's no killing the spores, per se. Burn or bury. A couple of leaves in the compost won't hurt. Tomato fungal spores of any description are only really a hazard to the next crop if the spores make it onto the new foliage.
Fungal spores enter the garden on the breeze. There's no stopping or avoiding them. All you can do is try to minimise their effects via the sort of housekeeping Dove mentioned above.
One thing I did that probably helped is every week or so I went through the plants and picked off any unhealthy-looking leaves, especially lower ones. This hleps to keep the plants ventilated, especially the bush ones. They are almost leafless now. I have to admit there are a few blight-looking tomatoes now, but so many good ones that I no longer care, it's the end of the season.
Good housekeeping, GM. Towards the end of the season, when the fruit is (hopefully) ripening, the plant itself has next to no involvement in the fruit's progress. It has done its job.