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  • Blight and next year tomatoes

    I didnt go to plot for last 2 week and when I arrived today the roof of polytunel has break in few places and it was raining on the tomatoes all this time.
    They were all black covered in disease.I pull them out and dispose in far corner of my plot.
    I am wondering if it safe to plant tomatoes in same place next year.
    I plant directly in the soil.

  • #2
    Was it Blight or botrytis?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
      Was it Blight or botrytis?
      Blight only from what I saw

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      • #4
        If it is blight, it's perfectly safe to replant next year.
        Both living blight and the spores can't survive long without a living host, so without one will die over winter. Usually it over-winters on potato tubers, which then start growing again next year and spread the blight anew.
        Last edited by ameno; 05-10-2019, 04:55 PM.

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        • #5
          So far in the UK blight spores have not survived over winter, they can only survive on living material. eg Toms or potatoes plants and/or tubers/fruit left lying about on the surface.
          Make sure you cover your pulled tomato plants until they've rotted away, or put them in your garden waste bin at home, if you have one.
          It's never good practise to plant things in exactly the same place/soil next year. Perhaps dig out a shovelful of earth and replace with a shovelful from elsewhere, before you plant next years toms in their places.

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          • #6
            I’d dig out the top couple of inches of soil,put it elsewhere. Dig up some soil from somewhere that hasn’t had any nightshade family growing in it,to replace it.
            Location : Essex

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