Posted by Pete C on September 11, 2011, 4:21 pm
Not been to allotment for a few days. Went this morning expecting to pick a
lot of toms. A sad sight met my eyes, all tom plants dead/dying and fruit
rotting! A wander around the site showed similar on almost every plot. One
lady said she thought there was a cold night last week.....but frost? Am
depressed....all that hard work wasted. :(
Pete C
Posted by <vicky on September 11, 2011, 4:44 pm
> Not been to allotment for a few days. Went this morning expecting to pick a
> lot of toms. A sad sight met my eyes, all tom plants dead/dying and fruit
> rotting! A wander around the site showed similar on almost every plot. One
> lady said she thought there was a cold night last week.....but frost? Am
> depressed....all that hard work wasted. :(
Probably blight. All of our allotment has been blighted, both our
greenhouses are rife. And it's very very sad. I presume you've been
growing tomatoes long enough to recognise blight? You get brown powdery
patches up the stem, and the tomatoes go mottled brown.
Posted by Bob Hobden on September 11, 2011, 5:19 pm
"Pete C" wrote .
>Not been to allotment for a few days. Went this morning expecting to pick a
>lot of toms. A sad sight met my eyes, all tom plants dead/dying and fruit
>rotting! A wander around the site showed similar on almost every plot. One
>lady said she thought there was a cold night last week.....but frost? Am
>depressed....all that hard work wasted. :(
Not frost but Blight, everyone on our site has lost all their Toms except
us, again. Must really piss them off. I spray ours with Bordeaux Mixture and
have done it twice so far and we also only grow Blight resistant varieties.
(Ferline, Fantasio and Legend)
I noticed at RHS Wisley this week they spray all their potatoes with BM too
but a sign beside them said " Sprayed with Bordeaux Mixture which will
shortly be taken off the market" for goodness sake is this a policy designed
to stop us growing any food ourselves. And yes we have stocked up.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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Posted by JonH on September 11, 2011, 5:38 pm
wrote:
>"Pete C" wrote .
>>
>>Not been to allotment for a few days. Went this morning expecting to pick a
>>lot of toms. A sad sight met my eyes, all tom plants dead/dying and fruit
>>rotting! A wander around the site showed similar on almost every plot. One
>>lady said she thought there was a cold night last week.....but frost? Am
>>depressed....all that hard work wasted. :(
>Not frost but Blight, everyone on our site has lost all their Toms except
>us, again. Must really piss them off. I spray ours with Bordeaux Mixture and
>have done it twice so far and we also only grow Blight resistant varieties.
>(Ferline, Fantasio and Legend)
>I noticed at RHS Wisley this week they spray all their potatoes with BM too
>but a sign beside them said " Sprayed with Bordeaux Mixture which will
>shortly be taken off the market" for goodness sake is this a policy designed
>to stop us growing any food ourselves. And yes we have stocked up.
Has just kicked in here too. However, I have made two 5 kg batches of
green tomato chutney before the blight showed.
Tomato material is now being segregated for disposal away from the
garden. I'd burn it, but the guy two doors away is an arse about
smoke.
Regards
JonH
Also to the west of London.
Posted by Sacha on September 11, 2011, 6:12 pm
On 2011-09-11 22:38:25 +0100, JonH@Underthewagon.net said:
> wrote:
>
>> "Pete C" wrote .
>>>
>>> Not been to allotment for a few days. Went this morning expecting to pick a
>>> lot of toms. A sad sight met my eyes, all tom plants dead/dying and fruit
>>> rotting! A wander around the site showed similar on almost every plot. One
>>> lady said she thought there was a cold night last week.....but frost? Am
>>> depressed....all that hard work wasted. :(
>>
>> Not frost but Blight, everyone on our site has lost all their Toms except
>> us, again. Must really piss them off. I spray ours with Bordeaux Mixture and
>> have done it twice so far and we also only grow Blight resistant varieties.
>> (Ferline, Fantasio and Legend)
>> I noticed at RHS Wisley this week they spray all their potatoes with BM too
>> but a sign beside them said " Sprayed with Bordeaux Mixture which will
>> shortly be taken off the market" for goodness sake is this a policy designed
>> to stop us growing any food ourselves. And yes we have stocked up.
>
>
> Has just kicked in here too. However, I have made two 5 kg batches of
> green tomato chutney before the blight showed.
>
> Tomato material is now being segregated for disposal away from the
> garden. I'd burn it, but the guy two doors away is an arse about
> smoke.
>
> Regards
> JonH
> Also to the west of London.
Offer him blight instead! If there are bye-laws forbidding bonfires,
do as you wish on a still day.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
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> lot of toms. A sad sight met my eyes, all tom plants dead/dying and fruit
> rotting! A wander around the site showed similar on almost every plot. One
> lady said she thought there was a cold night last week.....but frost? Am
> depressed....all that hard work wasted. :(