tomato blight

 How do I get rid of tom blight
3/4 yrs now of it can I do anything to the soil
so I can go back to good crops next year
thanks


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We had this question a couple of weeks ago.  Take out the plants, burn them
and don't re-plant toms in the same patch next year.

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 On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:11:17 -0000, "Heather Innes"


Thoroughly clean out the greenhouse now, all internal surfaces etc and
sterilise the soil with Jeyes fluid.  (Don't tell anybody!)

Sterilise any canes or pots you intend to reuse

Next year, try to buy blight-resistant types of tomato.

This year has been good for me, no blight at all except on the cucs
late in the season,

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"Ron  wrote in message in reply toHeather

That's "Ferline" then, a French variety with very large but normal shaped
fruit. Nice toms. Believe that T & M are selling them in 2004. There are
other resistant vareties in France I understand.
Any of you living in France heard of them?

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Take all the advice given in this thread by Sacha and Ron - even better
if you can take out the existing soil and replace it with new. If not,
remember that the disease can be carried to other places on footwear.
Infected soil outside can often be cleared of blight if it rested, then
given a green manure before reuse. Bear in mind that all members of the
Solanum family are vulnerable to the same blight - i.e. tomatoes,
potatoes, peppers & chillies, aubergines, cape gooseberry and a range of
flowering and ornamental plants including nightshades. Avoid planting
any of those in soil which has recently had blight.
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Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.