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(23-06-2023, 02:13 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote:(22-06-2023, 10:30 PM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: Been out all day today and finally got into the garden at 8pm to find masses of blight in the tomatoes so started stripping out the leaves. Yesterday they were fine, but I noticed a neighbour’s potatoes all blackened as we came home this evening!Blight in June, so disheartening! Definitely worth considering blight resistant hybrids for next year? We have had a lot of septoria on the potatoes and it spread to the tomatoes early in the season. Luckily taking off the affected leaves stopped its spread but I would've been very upset if I lost all my tomato plants so early.
Tomorrow I'll take off all but the top set of leaves. It's rained pretty much every day since the start of May so no great surprise. Bloody infuriating as we'll probably get nothing this year. Cabbages are great, though
I ended up cutting all the plants down to the ground a few days later as the blight was in the stems. So far about a third of the 42 plants are regrowing and fingers crossed are blight free! We may get a few fresh tomatoes yet.
Do you have recommendations for blight resistant varieties with flavour being the most important thing?! Thanks
Has Anyone Seen the Plot?
Hautes-Pyrénées (65), France
Hautes-Pyrénées (65), France