Comments on: Blighted Potatoes, Blighted Tomatoes

By: Robert Bolton

Robert Bolton — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:29:55 +0000

Many thanks for all the advice on Potato Blight folks, I’ve had it 3 years running on my Tomatoes! . Does the disease stay in the soil? if so,is there anything that I can do about it ?

By: julie gosbee

julie gosbee — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:42:49 +0000

many thanks.

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:36:08 +0000

There is more information on blight and what to do in the advice articles section of the web site.

By: julie gosbee

julie gosbee — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:41:06 +0000

Hi,
Last year was my first of ‘growing my own’ and i enjoyed it very much and on the whole it was a success. Except for… dreaded tomato blight. I lost my whole crop and was in tears! I would be so grateful for any advice about what precautions can be taken to avoid this again. I was so looking forward to making my chutneys and sauces and ended up buying my toms from the market! Many thanks in advance. Julie

By: sophie nutland

sophie nutland — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:07:44 +0000

i am an extreme lover of potatoes , i eat them most days and grow many i was infected with blight at one point but i am all in the clear now ! thaankyou for the website it has boost up my knowledge and love with potatoes.

By: hannah phelan

hannah phelan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:53:09 +0000

I would like to take a minute of my time to sincerely thank you for this page. As a keen potato enthusiast this page has meant a lot to me and has made a significant contribution to my knowedge of potatoes. I have loved potatoes my whole life and inherited this keen and ernest interest off my late father,who is infact an irish ex potato farmer. I have attended many potato lovers conventions as it is my life ambition to become a professional potato farmer. As an owner of several potato allotments, potato blight has always been a concern of mine, as i previously was unable to be able to differentiate between blighted potatos an healthy potatoes. But this has been a huge help to me. Thank you, and I wish all of you all the best in the future and i will be praying for all of you to have successful potatoes. may the lord be with you. Thank you

By: Clare

Clare — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:56:01 +0000

Blight spores in grow bags – possibly, I’m afraid Linda, spores are wind carried then wash down from the plant into the compost when it rains. Here in London as August was dry; plus I stopped/trimmed plants ruthlessly to remove anything dodgy, avoid over-stressing them and create space between. In denial since then and trying hard to avoid spraying. But Ailsa Craigs now ripening unevenly and funny coloured in parts. Marmande holding up so far (btw last year Borghese largely escaped) but rescue operation now imminent – bad fruit/plants into green waste as Council’s composting will be hot, wash hands, pick and process good ones (red eat/dry, green chutney/?drying?/keepable salsa?), hang up good trussses plants indoors to ripen and watch like a hawk. Such a shame, isn’t it, for such willing plants?

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:24:21 +0000

All of my tomatoes have suffered with tomato blight so will send them away withthe green rubbish, but is it ok to use the grow bags that they were growing in on my compost heap or do i have to destroy that as well.
Very sad.

By: Guylaine

Guylaine — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:17:58 +0000

Well,
I live in Canada, Quebec, Montreal and I have a community garden. There are about 100 gardens and all the tomatoes have blight.
It is my first garden and is quite depressing. My tomatoes we popping up so well, like about 120 on 6 plants and I kind of thought if you take off the infected leaves won’t the disease eat up the other leaves faster because the disease seems to eat up a leaf completely and fall off.
How long before the whole plant is infected. I discovered the blight about 4 days ago.

By: stephen pellatt

stephen pellatt — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:58:45 +0000

only our 2nd year of growing tomatoes and masses of blight!it appeared over the course of about a week but the funny thing was that 1 single plant of beef tomatoes didn’t seem to get infected,even though it was alongside 6 smaller varieties that were swamped with the stuff