blight on outdoor tomatoes

hi,can blight hit outdoor grown tomato plants?

my stems are showing black patches..is this blight and whats the remedy please?

tia
andy(ps..my birthday today and no-one noticed :( )

 

Inexscuable to mix your birthday..
Happy Birtday Andy
Hope you having a great day.
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Lets talk about Tomato blight on the next post
robert

 

Tomato blight on outside toms.
Theres been a lot of talk about potato and tomato blight on the forum Andy.
To help you identify, here are some pictures I posted last year of my blight.
http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/tomato-blight-pictures-23437.html?t=23437
Kristen posted a very informative post on the subject.
I shall post a link if I can find it.
Having looked I think the best thing to do is do a forum search for tomato blight. You will find loads of advis
Best of luck with your problem
robert

 

I agree with John, sad but true. Little can be done and you just have to put it down to experience. Blight is bad news!:( I only grow my toms in the greenhouse now. I've never had much success with outdoor tomatoes. The only ones that were any good were 'The Amateur' but in a wet year they too will get blight.

Happy birthday (hope you got some better presents than tomato blight)

 

symptoms....black patches on stems,brown rotten looking fruit.

my mates lost 20 plants and i lost 30...gutted to lose months of work

 

What a shame Andybike.

Once blight is into the fruit it's gone - tastes horrible. There's nothing you can do to save this years crop.

For next year you might want to try this.
I plant my tomatoes early to try and get them ripened before August - I was eating ripe tomatoes in June.
If you don't mind spraying your tomatoes start spraying them with Dithane or Bordeaux mix at the end of July and keep spraying as per instructions.
At the first sign og blight I take my whole crop including the green ones.
The ones which have started to colour will ripen up off the plant.
Green tomatoes make lovely green tomato soup, are good fried, and can be frozen for later use. Well worth saving. Better luck for next year.

 

Dithane is a nasty chemical compound.. if you choose to use it (and I wouldn't).. be very careful, don't eat the crop within 7 days.

Bordeaux mixture or a copper fungicide is a bit safer

 

I agree with Quercus about the Dithane. I don't spray mine - I would take the crop grreen first. But everybody has their choice. Everything in the shops has been sprayed many times over.

 

Alice, can I have the recipe for green tom soup. All I did last year when blight hit was make chutney, and I've still got lots left! When you say you planted your tomatoes early, how early?

Thanks, Liz

 

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'Happy Belated Birthday' Andy,I noticed it but didn't put anything up because some members join post a couple of posts and we never see them on here again.I should have looked at your profile to see when your last activity was,sorry:o

Sorry to hear about your blight,we have given up with growing toms because of the blight as it is heartbreaking to spend all that time growing them only to lose the whole lot.:(