Is this blight?

[Penellype]

It does look very like blight. The black spots I mentioned on Sungold look like this:



I find this yellowing with black spots inside happens quite a lot on outdoor Sungold and they survive it very well. But yours looks quite different

[Scoot]

Yeah i know, never mind.

There's not much fruit that looks like ripening at the minute apart from the odd one or two which i keep taking off.

I take it green fruit that's on the plant that is nowhere near ripening won't ripen at all?

[Penellype]

It might. I've had very green fruit ripen, it just takes a while, and the flavour isn't as good. Put some ripe fruit nearby (a banana will do) - it speeds up the ripening process.

[Scoot]

It might. I've had very green fruit ripen, it just takes a while, and the flavour isn't as good. Put some ripe fruit nearby (a banana will do) - it speeds up the ripening process.

I done this earlier.

[Scoot]

My two compost bins are sat literally right next to where the blight ridden potatoes were. One of the bins' compost is ready to use and I was going to use it for next years tomatoes! I take it it wouldn't be wise to do this anymore due to the blight spores probably being in it?

[Martin H]

We are told that blight spores can only survive the winter on living tissue. So green foliage, tubers, seeds. If your compost bin is free of potato tubers and fruits, and you haven't composted any blighted tomato fruits, you should be fine.

[Scoot]

We are told that blight spores can only survive the winter on living tissue. So green foliage, tubers, seeds. If your compost bin is free of potato tubers and fruits, and you haven't composted any blighted tomato fruits, you should be fine.

It's literally compost which is ready to use so there's nothing "living" in there.

What using the compost off this years blight ridden tomatoes next year on my carrots? Would that be safe?