Blotchy tomatoes

I've been growing tomatoes outside this year but over the last few days the leaves have all wilted and died, and the remaining tomatoes now are blotchy red/brown or green/brown - not sure they are OK to even make chutney from. Any ideas why this has happened? I live in London so we haven't had a frost and I haven't let them dry out.

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I'm really sorry but that sounds like tomato blight.
If the blight has got into the fruit then it won't be any use for anything.
What a shame.

 

The same happened to the last of my tomatoes - a late blight took the lot :( I had thought we'd escaped it this year but I've had to throw away what would have been some gorgeous fruit just as it was ripening :cry:

 

Oh no. I escaped blight last year. I assume I won't be able to reuse the compost from the growbags if it's blight?

 

Hi Pim,

No, the grow bags will have the spores in now. Mind you, grow bags are not much use for a second years use, bareley enough nutrient in em for the first crop.

 

Mine too, beef tomatoes and plumb doing great considering the lack of sun up here, then within 3 weeks it was all over the blight took hold and no tomatoes. Thats 2 years on the trot now. Think I'll give them a miss next year. :(

 

Yup mine too, had to throw the lot away :-(

 

Gutting isn't it? Blight got my toms, frost got my potatoes and blackfly got my broadbeans. Think next year is time chemical warfare!