[JayG]

Anything you can do to tilt the odds in your favour has to help mum - I would guess that surrounding the plants with a fine mesh barrier would provide the best outdoor protection given that the wind doesn't always blow in the same direction.

Can't do anything about the rain wetting the leaves and promoting spore germination, but making sure you don't wet them when watering has to be a slight help too.

[Florablunder]

Went up to the plot this morning to water/feed the toms - ended up putting them all into a bin bag as they were clearly gonners - I haven't even had a chance to get any fruit off them yet. My 2nd early potatoes had also been affected I think - they were looking really healthy just a few days ago, but now all brown and dying off, so I cut those down as well to hopefully protect the spuds.

I have a couple of spare tomato seedlings at home - could I put those up at the allotment to replace the blighted ones, or is that just foolhardy?? Is it too late to start again with toms? Or is this summer a write-off now?

[jambop]

I had to pull out the end plant from a row of 4 - the others were behind a debris netting wind-break. As the spores are windborne, it makes me wonder if surrounding them with a barrier/netting  would help?

That's interesting mum I thought that the spores were carried in rain drops. So the spores actually arrive with the wind and are then germinated by the water from the rain one assumes ? Anyway we have had a bit of a show of blight on some of the plants but I have treated them and hope that it will hold it back. I will be treating them again because rain is forecast for sometime next week. I have been trying to keep of the treatment and it just shows that it is not worth it you have put the work in and have a legal method of saving plants then use it in my opinion, if I had followed my normal routine I would have had no problem. I am still hopeful that treating them will save them though.

[Enfield Glen]

Its turned up at home as well now, I have some training toms on a 3ft wall and just found 3 plants have been hit, will need to have a good tidy up later to save what I can. A least I have had a crop from these, nothing from the allotment at all so far. Hopefully the greenhouse will escape un hit.

[hasbeans]

I've lost 3 plants from 12.  The rest are infected but still producing clean fruit.  It's also on several peppers/chillies and a couple of potatoes in pots.  I suspect most plants will be binned within a month.  This years yield is unlikely to cover the compost cost

[OakR]

I had to pull out the end plant from a row of 4 - the others were behind a debris netting wind-break. As the spores are windborne, it makes me wonder if surrounding them with a barrier/netting  would help?

Interesting. I've been debating trying this anyway to reduce the wind effect a bit, but would be great if this also worked.

Hopefully the weather is not so bad next year though!