| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight 18:34 - Jul 16 with 1233 views | Dubtractor |
Anyone else having problems with blight this year? I've had to pull up half of my outdoor tomatoes, and can see it's started to spread to spuds too, though thankfully they are ready to dig up before any real damage is done.
This year's weather can get in the bin. |  |
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| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 19:21 - Jul 16 with 1166 views | cooperd5 |
Ours are still green n chunky but are in a greenhouse. Spuds Ok too, so far |  | | |
| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 20:01 - Jul 16 with 1136 views | Ryorry |
Don’t do toms, but spuds are fine. Think blight is as much caused by wind-blown spores as weather? Not surprising it’s about in these conditions though. |  |
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| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 09:22 - Jul 22 with 923 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
For the first time ever blight has got in to our greenhouse tomatoes. Gutted. |  |
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| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 09:38 - Jul 22 with 892 views | norfsufblue |
Are there more gardening diseases around this year.... I'm definitely no gardener but had everyone of our buxus hedges go completely brown to the point I thought they were gonna's but advised to give a fairly brutal cutback and they have all recovered, I noticed many many other hedges of that variety all seem to have the same issues. Tbf I was surprised how quickly they recovered, really thought they were going to have to come out. [Post edited 22 Jul 2024 11:12]
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| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 10:18 - Jul 22 with 861 views | Buhrer |
I havent grown veg this year but had a little bud rot in an early planting of my favourite flowers, so very much hoping for drier conditions as they bloom in August/September. |  | | |
| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 10:53 - Jul 22 with 836 views | IndependentlyBlue |
Hadn’t had until this weekend. Bloke on the next allotment to mine pointed out the signs of blight on his spuds and when l checked mine there were signs too. Cut back top growth of all the spuds to protect the tubers. Checked on outdoor and greenhouse tomatoes and, fingers crossed, no sign yet there.
Been a bar steward of a year though, rain, slugs, snails, pigeons, now blight. |  |
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| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 11:07 - Jul 22 with 822 views | Ryorry |
| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 10:53 - Jul 22 by IndependentlyBlue |
Hadn’t had until this weekend. Bloke on the next allotment to mine pointed out the signs of blight on his spuds and when l checked mine there were signs too. Cut back top growth of all the spuds to protect the tubers. Checked on outdoor and greenhouse tomatoes and, fingers crossed, no sign yet there.
Been a bar steward of a year though, rain, slugs, snails, pigeons, now blight. |
And wind, and cold - everything's behind (tho touch wood, no disease/s yet).
Courgettes & marrows that'd normally be a foot high, 2 feet across & in flower are only a few miserable inches high and across; runner beans only 2/3 way up the pole, leeks really slow, asparagus season only a week long & poor; lettuces only just mature.
Jerusalem artichokes & maincrop spuds were the only thing that grew at normal rate - though everything else did finally & very noticeably take off propely with the warmer weather last week. | |
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| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 13:09 - Jul 22 with 771 views | IndependentlyBlue |
| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 11:07 - Jul 22 by Ryorry |
And wind, and cold - everything's behind (tho touch wood, no disease/s yet).
Courgettes & marrows that'd normally be a foot high, 2 feet across & in flower are only a few miserable inches high and across; runner beans only 2/3 way up the pole, leeks really slow, asparagus season only a week long & poor; lettuces only just mature.
Jerusalem artichokes & maincrop spuds were the only thing that grew at normal rate - though everything else did finally & very noticeably take off propely with the warmer weather last week. |
Main issue has been slugs/snails. Been devouring stuff they don’t normally touch - leeks, onions, garlic. Did find some on the asparagus but minimal. Have got a Jerusalem artichoke bed and they have ruined it; plants got to about three inches high and then were eaten down to stumps overnight. Been a very disheartening year overall. | |
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| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 15:01 - Jul 22 with 741 views | Churchman |
The postage stamp is supporting tomatoes, beans, courgettes, cucumbers, potatoes, chillies, a couple of aubergine plants. Just a bit of fun really.
The only real failure so far is the aubergines (rubbish things anyway). The courgettes are going well and producing, the tomatoes look ok, cucumbers not so bad, but the beans look a bit sad. Chilli plants x2 have been fun. Slugs, snails birds, elephants, Zylons and the Pretoria Guard have all had a go.
The slug traps have been productive. Cheap beer in yoghurt pots in the ground near the growing stuff and the slimy things all head to the bar! |  | | |
| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 15:41 - Jul 22 with 727 views | Ryorry |
| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 13:09 - Jul 22 by IndependentlyBlue |
Main issue has been slugs/snails. Been devouring stuff they don’t normally touch - leeks, onions, garlic. Did find some on the asparagus but minimal. Have got a Jerusalem artichoke bed and they have ruined it; plants got to about three inches high and then were eaten down to stumps overnight. Been a very disheartening year overall. |
Sorry to hear that, always a sickener when all your hard work gets pre-eaten :(
Would it cheer you up to look on it as doing your bit for biodiversity by breeding hedgehog food? | |
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| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 15:43 - Jul 22 with 722 views | Ryorry |
| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 15:01 - Jul 22 by Churchman |
The postage stamp is supporting tomatoes, beans, courgettes, cucumbers, potatoes, chillies, a couple of aubergine plants. Just a bit of fun really.
The only real failure so far is the aubergines (rubbish things anyway). The courgettes are going well and producing, the tomatoes look ok, cucumbers not so bad, but the beans look a bit sad. Chilli plants x2 have been fun. Slugs, snails birds, elephants, Zylons and the Pretoria Guard have all had a go.
The slug traps have been productive. Cheap beer in yoghurt pots in the ground near the growing stuff and the slimy things all head to the bar! |
A use for all that disgusting 0.5% Ghost Ship! | |
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| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 17:38 - Jul 22 with 686 views | IndependentlyBlue |
| FAO TWTD Gardeners - tomato/potato blight on 15:41 - Jul 22 by Ryorry |
Sorry to hear that, always a sickener when all your hard work gets pre-eaten :(
Would it cheer you up to look on it as doing your bit for biodiversity by breeding hedgehog food? |
Thanks for the positive spin on such a disheartening experience. No doubt the hedgehogs will be well fed for the winter.
Been a noticeable lack of butterflies and hover flies this year too.
Spent a happy half an hour on Saturday watching honey bees getting plastered in the globe artichoke flowers. Gone man, solid gone | |
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