How's 2016 been for blight for you?

[Baldy]

Our site usually suffers from blight and I thought it was going to be another fugazi year when my Lady Christl first earlies got it - but I chopped the foliage down and left them in the ground for a couple of weeks and the tubers were ok (well, lots of slug damage but no blight).
I've got a handful of buckets with 100's and 1000's from "Cadalot seed suppliers" and they're still blight free. A couple of other unlabelled beefsteak are also doing their thing outside at the plot.
Other plot holders not so lucky with tom crops decimated by blight even within their polytunnels.
Just been lucky I guess.

Have you?

(Been lucky...

[WPG]

No, not been lucky at all this year. Blight struck early on our allotment - it seemed a particularly nasty strain. We noticed a few blackened leaves on 16th July, and by the 19th it was so bad we had to cut the haulms down on all plants except the sarpo mira.

Dug them out a fortnight later, no damage to the tubers but a lot of the maincrop were just golfball size. On the plus side, only about 5% had any slug damage. The sarpo mira are still growing, looking a bit tatty, but managing to resist the blight.

Meanwhile, tomatoes in the garden still blight-free, although very few ripe fruit yet.

[Martin H]

Blight struck early here too. Then the weather dried up and it stopped spreading. But it got all my outdoor tomatoes and my Desiree maincrop potatoes.

The earlies were going over anyway and for some reason the Cara maincrop were spared and are still growing.

[Nicos]

8weeks after planting our charlottes they got blight.
Had to cut them down.
So only enough spuds from 1 plant for a good helping each.

Looks like the spuds are OK for storing

[Scoot]

Got it on my spuds, I only noticed it yesterday. Chopped the tops off and will harvest in a fortnight.

[Baldy]

Blight struck early here too. Then the weather dried up and it stopped spreading. But it got all my outdoor tomatoes and my Desiree maincrop potatoes.

guess that might explain it - relatively dry for the last month and a bit... off to a festival this weekend so its bound to rain and everything will be brown and rotten when I get back.

[Guest]

Blight in GH1 - lost over half my tom plants
Blight in gh2 - lost a few plants
None in gh3
Spuds all blighted
Outside toms 30+ plants only a smidge of blight (fingers crossed)

It has been really mixed and I don't usually have much of an issue

[WendyC]

My early potatoes (Lady Christl and Red Duke of York ) succumbed early. Most of the tubers are ok, with a few revolting ones! Juliette next to them starting showing signs but stopped when the weather improved. On my other plot, only a few metres away, all was fine.
When I got back from holiday all the tomatoes had blight, except for Mountain Magic. At home my tomatoes inside and out have remained blight free, but oh so slow to ripen.

[Cadalot]

So far no sign....However my King Edwards grew like mad flowered and then started to wither but when I looked the spud are really small still. Estima harvested and Lady Christie foliage on the way down. The rest are Sarpo's so they should be resistant.

Really not a good year for toms apart from the 100s & 1000s that have gone bonkers with flowers but still very little fruit yet. Not a single red tom from the 20 flower buckets of toms in the back garden or the ones in the greenhouses

Balders glad the 100s & 1000's have been good for you I grow them every year, how did the Red Robin do?

[Bigmallly]

It's been a good year if you're a blight spore, warm & wet. I lost most of the outside toms but the inside ones appear ok...................so far...............Didn't grow many spuds this year, too much faff.

[Nafets]

I lost 12 of 14 toms, the two that are left dont seem to want to produce too much either.

[Mrs Bee]

Charlottes and Juliettes are all fine. The tomatoes in the garden, of which there are very many, are varied.

the ones in the pots seem OK but the ones in the new bed at the bottom of the garden are showing the first signs which is a bit of beggar as they were all the Amish paste plum tomatoes.

Not huge amounts of fruit on any of them and only a couple starting to go red.

Pleased that the spuds are OK as the flavour of the home grown potatoes are soooooooo much better than the bought ones.

[noviceveggrower]

Been very lucky as I haven't had it at all this year. I did space my spuds out rather a lot so this might of helped with the air flow around the plants. Don't think any fellow plot holder had it either which is quite a surprise with all the wet weather we had and then hot spells straight after it.

[Mrs Bee]

guess that might explain it - relatively dry for the last month and a bit... off to a festival this weekend so its bound to rain and everything will be brown and rotten when I get back.

Which festival are you off to Baldy. Sidmouth Folk festival? We usually go but haven't for the past few years.

[Thelma Sanders]

Blight struck here a couple of weeks ago, here, but my 2nd early spud foliage had already died down.
Tomatoes on the top plots still seem ok but all the lower plot toms have been ruined.