My toms are dying....

After years of not even knowing what blight looked like I've had problems with it for the last five years or so.

I'm waiting for it to rear its ugly head again this year, as it surely will, just as soon as the weather conditions are right.

It will blow in from miles around once conditions are right for it, I believe.
So, I'm not suggesting composting the infected stuff, but other than that there is not much the amateur can do other than spray before it hits or at the very first sign.

Dai if you put plant material out for collection in the wrong bin around here you stand the chance of not getting your rubbish collected at all.

So its garden waste bin or bonfire for mine at the end of the season.

 

Well I was under the impression that the spores survive the winter either in the ground or on dead plant material.
If not how do they get through the winter?

 

I read on tinternet (so it must be true lol) that it is ok to compost blight toms providing you cover with unblighted material to keep the spores from becoming airborne. I also read that frost kills them.

 

Blight's got my tomatoes for the last 2 years and what surprised me last year in particular was the speed with which it destroyed the plants, almost on a par with them being frosted.

 

Nasty business - ruined my whole crop last year.