[AussieInFrance]

Couldn't decide if i'd get better odds at the casino than i would avoiding late blight this year so nature decided for me. After more than a week of rain and warm temps it was highly probable wasn't it that blight would appear? Started by removing the odd leaf or 3 but then the stalks went black so the vote was in. Steeling myself to remove over 40 bushes now. After 6 months of nurturing from seed it will take a G&T methinks.

Ever the optimistic, can i risk planting more from the garden centre? Won't be the wide variety of heritage toms i was so anticipating but it might at least give me a tomato or two this season.

What say you?

[Robster]

AIF,
What a misery.  Happened to me a couple of years ago.  Lost the lot.  I use the aspirin now, not sure if it works but last year was OK on the tomato front.  Not that it was a particularly blighty (nice word that) year.  I suppose I'd have a go if I were you as a garden year without any tomatoes is almost unthinkable.

[Eblana]

I had the same two weeks ago and have risked the GC ones.  I disinfected everything with Jayes Fluid and removed the blighted ones from the plot.  Left it a day or two and then planted GC ones in large pots with fresh compost.  I got the GC ones fairly cheaply as they were the last they had.  Two weeks later and fingers crossed they look fine.  A bit of a faff and as you say not great varieties but I couldn't go a year without tomatoes.

[m1ckz]

sre we allowed to use dithane now    .

[snow white]

My tomatoes are in my polytunnel and whereas the ones outside always succumb to blight, it has never reached inside my poly.

[New shoot]

sre we allowed to use dithane now    .

Dithane hasn't been available to home gardeners for few years now.  It may still be around for professional use.

[BabbyAnn]

My tomatoes are in my polytunnel and whereas the ones outside always succumb to blight, it has never reached inside my poly.

never say never ..... spores may get into the polytunnel and where there are warm humid conditions, plants can still get blight.  To be fair, the risk is much reduced but not totally - one year I had blight both at the plot and also in the greenhouse at home