[InWarwickshire]

Watched a Youtube  video yesterday from an American `expert` who suggested spraying tomato plants with a solution of asprin dissolved with water. Supposed to increase vitamins,taste, growth etc.  Anyone come across this before? I wouldn`t bother even if Monty Don suggested it.

[mumofstig]

It does help against blight by all accounts, in a wet year - as for the rest 
https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=124053.msg1457572#msg1457572

[hasbeans]

Mr 'Garden Myths' has a decent but inconclusive explanation here:  https://www.gardenmyths.com/aspirin-spray-tomatoes-vegetable-garden/

[Anton]

Yes I tried that once (I found a long list of organic tricks for blight - none of which was efficacious) and it didn't work. At least they never complained to me about suffering from headaches.

Anton

[madcat]

We find it helps as a preventative, but its not a silver bullet.  Spray with aspirin when the forecast Hutton Criteria for the area are red (see https://blightspy.huttonltd.com/#/forecast) with the idea that it stresses the plant, closing the pores and therefore making it less vulnerable to the late blight spores.  Don't overcook it and weaken the plant, keep them well fed and strong, and take off excess foliage.  All together it increases the odds of a good year!
Once they have blight, you can try removing the affected foliage, but you are only buying a bit of time.    And on an allotment site, once one plot has it ... again it is only a matter of time. 

[Growster...]

We use aspirin as mentioned in Mum's post at the top.

One reason why it 'seems' to work, is that when one uses an alternative method for battling blight - forgetting all the myths etc., one tends to check over plants more frequently, and therefore any blight present gets a look-in much earlier!

I think that there's possibly a little too much 'science' creeping in which usually obfuscates the issues rather than solves them! We all know what happens when too many 'experts' start wailing at each other, they all think they're right!

[Goosegirl]

I've never tried it and can't give it a go this year as I'm not growing any as there's only me here and, while I like home-grown toms, there would be too many for me to eat, so then I'd get a headache! 

[Growster...]

Whatever happened to the old fashioned 'headache' GG...;0)

[doropenno]

Interesting method, I've never heard of that before. Maybe later, tomatoes will stop my headaches