Talkback: Tomato blight
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I have grown Tomatoes for many years but it is only the last three years i have had a problem with blight. In the past i chose to grow what you may call normal size tomatoes ie shirley Gardeners delight, this year i decided to grow all small varieties ie Sungold tom thumb in all 6 diferent varieties about 77 plants in all, the blight still affected them but at a later stage in their maturaty therefore giving me a much better crop to harvest before it struck i had about 250-300lB before i lost the plants.
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Is it safe to use the compost from the growbags of blighted tomatoes if I am not planning to grow tomatoes or potatoes in my beds?
Unfortunately, most of my plants contacted blight in the last few weeks of August (rubbish weather). I'm not sure if the beef toms got blight first, then spread to the Golden Sunrise as the later were much better at fending off the fungal spores.
I too wish to recycle the growbags/compost left over in my planters. I would like to know the answer to Chris W's question above.
Next year I'll try some inside & some outside and stagger the propagation to hopefully extend the number of fresh younger plants.
An old gardening friend told me that halums from potatoes and old tomato plant should not be composted- they should be burned to prevent infection spreading.