[jennyb]

any suggestions or have i lots all my plants for this year?

i've sprayed with blight spray.

mum's mentioned something about a smoke bomb for it.

any ideas?

[Aunt Sally]

On your tomatoes I presume.  Are you sure it's blight ?  Any pictures ?

[Yorkie]

Hi jenny, good to see you around

Have you definitely got blight or are you trying to prevent it?

Here's the RHS advice on it

[jennyb]

looks very much like the blight i had last year outdoors

and thinking further, we emptied the growbags on the site where we have since put the greenhouse

mum's just asked me if i'm going out to help her.  looks like the worst one is coming out and lots of the leaves are going on the others...... and i'm spraying the stems that are showing the brown patches.

is there anything that looks similar to early blight?

[Aunt Sally]

I doubt you'll be able to save them if they're showing brown patches on the stem 

[jennyb]

looks like i;ve lost ll my tomataos then.  i reaaly wonder why i bother.  this side of the gardening certainly doesn't help with depression.

well the worst one is out, the leaves have and any signs on leaves have been removed.  i have some very naked plants

mum's still looking up this smoke bomb but thinks it should be done when the green house is empty

[Aunt Sally]

I think you are right about the smoke bomb being used in the greenhouse when it is empty.

You have nothing to lose no by hanging on to the tomatoes that you still have to see if they will survive.  Remove and burn the ones that show further signs of blight.

When you can get the greenhouse empty over winter you should give it a thorough clean out with Jayes fluid remove all the soil and replace with clean compost or if the greenhouse is small enough slab the floor over and grow in containers in the future. 

[jennyb]

mum said looking at it in the light there more leaves that we missed last night.

i said getting a greenhouse was a bad idea - now i guess i've just been prooved right.  seems its not to be.

will the pepper, cucumber, aubergine and tomatillo plants be ok do you think - oh and the fennel, beetroot and salad leaves?

[Aunt Sally]

A greenhouse is never a bad idea Jenny and you will love the advantage it gives you.  It's just a same that you introduced blight with the used compost but such an easy mistake and one many people would have done. 

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?PID=217

All your other crops should be fine.

[gillie]

I 'bomb' our greenhouse every winter with sulphur smokes.  It kills everything and certainly sorted things out after we had blight in it.

Gillie

[blue_cortina]

... or if the greenhouse is small enough slab the floor over and grow in containers in the future. 

I'd second that suggestion - it's alot easier to clean and keep clean.

[Eatyourgreens]

I know you are probably not supposed to, but I know a gardener who gives his greenhouse a very in depth clean every winter using Jeyes fluid.
 
It is very easy to forget how an awful lot of pathogens can carry over from one year to the next.


Bob

[DD.]

There's something wrong in using Jeyes Fuid now? 

Quick run for the hills, we have no hope left!

[Eatyourgreens]

I saw someone have a go at it the other day, couldn't be bothered to say anything, as you say, thought about running away to a small island, but I am already on one!!!



Bob

[HLS]

I think you're no longer supposed to use Jeyes' as a treatment for the soil - something to do with testing and licencing I think, but I haven't looked it up as I don't use it for that anyway - but as far as I know it's fine to use for cleaning equipment with.