Tomato blight question

[Nykied]

Hi,

My tomatoes (cherry ones, in pots and hanging baskets) seem to be dying. The leaves are all shrivelled up, on about 5 out of 9 plants and some of the tomatoes are going soft, even when they're just ripening. They don't seem to be getting patches on them though.

I've googled blight on tomatoes and I still can't decide if it's blight. It's my first year growing tomatoes.

If it is blight, can I still pick all the toms and see if any of them go funny?

And I've read about burning the foliage. Will putting them in a bin do? A proper bin, not the green or compost bins.

[Bramble_killer]

If you can take some photos and post them on here, someone will tell you what it possibly could be. Blight will spread FAST, its not a slow gradual process.

[Nykied]

I'll try to do that tomorrow. It'll be my first time posting photos though.

[Davyburns]

I have 11 tumbling toms outside, 8 in baskets and 3 in pots, and there all dying off in the way you describe, I had just put it down to the time of year, but............

[Tomatoking]

Hi,

My tomatoes (cherry ones, in pots and hanging baskets) seem to be dying. The leaves are all shrivelled up, on about 5 out of 9 plants and some of the tomatoes are going soft, even when they're just ripening. They don't seem to be getting patches on them though.

I've googled blight on tomatoes and I still can't decide if it's blight. It's my first year growing tomatoes.

If it is blight, can I still pick all the toms and see if any of them go funny? YES

And I've read about burning the foliage. Will putting them in a bin do? A proper bin, not the green or compost bins.

The reason people have to burn the foliage is that blight only survives on living matter, whether it be on the soil or plants. So the only way to make sure it has really gone is to burn it. The problem being is will neighbours do the same!.

I have some good pictures on my blog of very early signs of blight here

if you want to spot other diseases this is a good link, which you will find always at the top of my blog.

Some plants will naturally die at this time of year, but as has been said, blight kills quickly and will devistate a crop in a week.


Mr TK

[Two_Sheds]

My tomatoes ... seem to be dying. The leaves are all shrivelled up

Mine too: it's autumn and that's what happens.

Blight, as the others have said, hits overnight, it's not gradual