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Tomatoes - Need help!!
ali_bird2001
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Both my mum and i have sick tomatoes. Mine are in a greenhouse, hers are not. about 6 weeks ago I gave her 2 of my plants as one of hers was failing and then a month ago she gave me one that I had grown from seed back in return.
I showed pics at a local garden centre yesterday and they said it is possilly down to me overcrowding my greenhouse so was lack of ventilation/too humid etc I have now removed most of the sick bits off mine and made
more room but don't know whether it's going to help or or this is even cause.
Thoughts?
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That looks incredibly like blight I'm afraid, no cure I have ever found. It has been very humid this year, be careful not to spread it around (on fingers, clothes etc) and burn all affected vegetation.
Supposed to be less likely in a greenhouse but I lost both my plants a couple of years ago, felt a bit better when Monty had the same problem
Last edited: 07 August 2016 10:45:39
Sorry, but it looks like blight to me too...
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
If it's of any help in the future - I infected almost all my tomatoes with blight this year due to accepting some plants from a friend.
The only ones that did not succumb to the blight were a new blight resistant variety called Crimson Crush - despite being in the same growhouse and at very close quarters with the source of the infection, they have continued to grow strongly, are beautifully healthy plants and appear to be cropping well.
I started mine late this year due to a badly timed holiday
so I can't tell you what the flavour is like, but if it's as good as the blurb on the packet, I shall grow them again
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Having looked at the plants again, I have 2 that appear to be unaffecte. One was moved putside about a fortnight ago as leaves were curling. The other is still in greenhouse but was on its own, leaves a s stems all look ok at.