Posted by David WE Roberts on September 2, 2010, 8:31 am
The tomatoes on the allotment were just starting to ripen.
Then the heavens opened for a week.
Now there is significant brown rot on some plants and a lot of unripe fruit.
Although we have taken a load of ripe fruit off the tomatoes it looks as
though the crop may well be destroyed very soon.
I assume this is worse on allotments than at home because the tomatoes at
home are still fine.
Is it possible to save some tomatoes by removing most leaves and all
infected parts of the plant?
Not an easy task.
The allotment is also a jungle - a week of rain and the whole site is under
a carpet of weeds.
Not looking forward to clearing them in an attempt to find the potatoes and
onions.
Hopefully a few more days of dry weather will make it easier to work the
ground - everwhere is very damp at the moment.
We do, however, have a champion courgette.
Takes two strong men to lift it :-)
One courgette plant is showing signs of yellowing of the leaves which make
me wonder if it has some kind of infection.
The whole allotment seems to have gone to hell in just over a week.
Ho hum.
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[Not even bunny]
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Posted by Ian B on September 2, 2010, 12:38 pm
David WE Roberts wrote:
> The tomatoes on the allotment were just starting to ripen.
> Then the heavens opened for a week.
> Now there is significant brown rot on some plants and a lot of unripe
> fruit. Although we have taken a load of ripe fruit off the tomatoes
> it looks as though the crop may well be destroyed very soon.
> I assume this is worse on allotments than at home because the
> tomatoes at home are still fine.
> Is it possible to save some tomatoes by removing most leaves and all
> infected parts of the plant?
> Not an easy task.
> The allotment is also a jungle - a week of rain and the whole site is
> under a carpet of weeds.
> Not looking forward to clearing them in an attempt to find the
> potatoes and onions.
> Hopefully a few more days of dry weather will make it easier to work
> the ground - everwhere is very damp at the moment.
> We do, however, have a champion courgette.
> Takes two strong men to lift it :-)
> One courgette plant is showing signs of yellowing of the leaves which
> make me wonder if it has some kind of infection.
> The whole allotment seems to have gone to hell in just over a week.
> Ho hum.
I was going to say my garden has developed a blanket of weeds, but
"continental quilt" might be more accurate.
:(
Ian
Posted by Pete on September 2, 2010, 12:48 pm
>> We do, however, have a champion courgette.
>> Takes two strong men to lift it :-)
> :(
> Ian
Sounds like you have failed on this score as well !
You probably have a marrow instead (:-)
Pete
Posted by David WE Roberts on September 2, 2010, 1:25 pm
>>> We do, however, have a champion courgette.
>>> Takes two strong men to lift it :-)
>> :(
>> Ian
> Sounds like you have failed on this score as well !
> You probably have a marrow instead (:-)
Apart from the question of the difference between a marrow picked early and
a courgette, this still looks like a courgette.
When I was a lad marrows were fatter and had light and dark longditudinal
stripes.
IIRC marrows also had more seeds, and tended to be a bit more 'woody' on the
outside.
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Posted by Roy Bailey on September 5, 2010, 10:52 am
>The tomatoes on the allotment were just starting to ripen.
>Then the heavens opened for a week.
>Now there is significant brown rot on some plants and a lot of unripe fruit.
>Although we have taken a load of ripe fruit off the tomatoes it looks
>as though the crop may well be destroyed very soon.
>I assume this is worse on allotments than at home because the tomatoes
>at home are still fine.
>Is it possible to save some tomatoes by removing most leaves and all
>infected parts of the plant?
Yes, then spray the plants with a solution of Epsom salts every day for
a week.
I had blight in my tomatoes last year and followed this advice. It
checked the spread of the blight without completely stopping it. This
year I grew most of mine from seed and have had no trouble - so far.
Roy.
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> Then the heavens opened for a week.
> Now there is significant brown rot on some plants and a lot of unripe
> fruit. Although we have taken a load of ripe fruit off the tomatoes
> it looks as though the crop may well be destroyed very soon.
> I assume this is worse on allotments than at home because the
> tomatoes at home are still fine.
> Is it possible to save some tomatoes by removing most leaves and all
> infected parts of the plant?
> Not an easy task.
> The allotment is also a jungle - a week of rain and the whole site is
> under a carpet of weeds.
> Not looking forward to clearing them in an attempt to find the
> potatoes and onions.
> Hopefully a few more days of dry weather will make it easier to work
> the ground - everwhere is very damp at the moment.
> We do, however, have a champion courgette.
> Takes two strong men to lift it :-)
> One courgette plant is showing signs of yellowing of the leaves which
> make me wonder if it has some kind of infection.
> The whole allotment seems to have gone to hell in just over a week.
> Ho hum.