Diseased soil from tomato plants

[Fulmar]

I got a fungal disease, which I presume was blight, on my polytunnel tomatoes this year (my chillis and herbs were unaffected). I cut down the worst plants and threw them away but left others so that I could at least get some fruit. Now these are finished and I have cut them down and thrown them away. The tomatoes were grown in buckets filled with multi purpose compost.

My question is: Do I have to throw away the compost now or is it safe to dig into my garden. I don't know if the disease overwinters or is killed off by the cold.

Thanks in advance, Fulmar

[Snadger]

As long as you dug it into an area that you weren't going to put tomatoes or potatoes I can't forsee a problem.
I don't think blight spores overwinter anyway?

[gojiberry]

Shouldn't be a problem if it was blight as it only survives on living plants and will not transfer via the soil from one year to the next. ( don't ask me where it comes from at the start of each season)

Ian

[organic]

( don't ask me where it comes from at the start of each season)

Presumably living plants that got the blight but didn't get dug up and burned?

Though... if it doesn't overwinter in the soil, why is it a problem to use the soil for toms or spuds again?

(I know rotation is to avoid disease, but I wonder would they be any more likely to get blighted if in the same spot twice)