Blight

Oh what a disappointment for you! 

I haven't had any tomatoes yet. I was given some cherry tomato plants, and a baker's dozen Alicante. Lots of green tomatoes, only a few beginning to change colour.

A few days ago, I noticed the dreaded blight on one outside tom plant, but it hadn't affected the two or three plants on either side. I picked the ones with the brown patch and chucked them well away from the garden...

Two days later, there were five or six more going bad, so I harvested the lot, green and ripening red, and brought them inside into a drawer we always use for this very reason...

A dozen more have turned overnight, so it's been a day for making about three litres of green ginger and chilli sriracca to at least get something out of the green ones!

The reds will get the same treatment a.s.a.p.!

First time we've had blight for years, but you still immediately recognise it!

Surely the potatoes would be full size by now anyway? My second earlies were blighted on 24th July and had already reached a decent size. I cut the tops off and left them a couple of weeks before digging. They seem fine in the shed. I cut the still green tops off the Sarpo Mira main crop last week and harvested them yesterday, they were huge.

Blight is a common occurance here in the west of scotland, normally we have wet summers with dry springs and autumn, its been wet all year so far, a volunteer tom from last years compost is up with fruits and no blight, even though the greenhouse has been caught, I may eat a tom yet!

Same here in Cumbria, which is why I don't often bother with maincrop spuds.
Still mostly Sungold tomatoes, with a few Moneymaker & Red Zebra. No idea how long they'll continue, as I'm clipping off blighted leaves & pulled one plant in the polytunnel yesterday due to blight getting into the stem.