What does it mean if my tomato plants start to blacken?

[TooTicky]

[OrmIrian]

I would think some kind of blight. Or botritis (sp). If the latter I don't think there is much you can do. I think that too much water might cause it which could possibly be the case this summer....

Alternatively they could be on fire.

[TooTicky]

Well, no fire but have had a bit of rain. Wondered if it might be that. Hope it's nothing worse!

[HarryShagsAFish]

.that youa re cursed and a rvaen wil cut out your gullet

[TooTicky]

[Lucycat]

the plants or your tomoatoes?

If it's the fruit then it's blossom end rot caused by sporadic watering - you can eat them though no worries.

If it's the plant them erm......dunno, are the leaves going yellow?

[TooTicky]

It's the plants themselves, the lower regions. They haven't fruited yet.

[iota]

tomato blight?

[TooTicky]

Oh dear. Maybe.

[iota]

advice from RHS

hmmm warm wet conditions - sound familiar??

[DumbledoresGirl]

TooTicky, all of mine have withered and gone yellow. It is the crap weather we are having. Tomato plants have not done this to me before. I have written off about 35 plants this year

[TooTicky]

Oh bugger. Thanks.

[iota]

my toms are small and green - I might be making green tomato chutney this year

[DumbledoresGirl]

At the moment I only have about 4 and they are the size of peas.

[iota]

mine are the size of grapes

[TooTicky]

I have kept 2 plants in the greenhouse, they are okay and have tiny toms.

[iota]

I have some rather lovely cucumbers in my conservatory, but the outdoor ones are very sad looking - they are next to my tomatoes

[TooTicky]

My cucumber plants are looking a bit

[iota]

it's been a terrible year for outdoor gardening

[DumbledoresGirl]

Oh I don't know about that. We had some sunshine today and I went outside to see what I could do and discovered the garden had been completely taken over by weeds. So some plants like this weather.

[TooTicky]

My peas and beans are looking fabulous. Pulled most of my onions today before the damp got to them - they're a good size. Carrots seem okay, ditto swedes.

[catsmother]

I've just binned my Roma plants because they had suspected tomato blight (which has just now been confirmed by Iota's link). Am so depressed about it ..... grew them from seed since March, and they looked great until a few days ago.

I've still got lots of tumbling toms with lots of green fruits .... am just hoping they don't succumb. Have read that cherry varieties are usually less likely to.

But hey, at least you've got peas ..... I had to get rid of all of mine because although they looked wonderful, when I opened them, I found pea moth larvae inside. Most of my dwarf beans were also eaten, well, their leaves were before they ever had a chance to grow an actual bean. Suspect slugs.

Not a great start to my first ever attempt at veggie growing (in large containers on my patio). The only things proving successful are chilis (and I have doubts about the fruits maturing if we don't get more sun), spring onion, beetroots and maybe these tumbling toms.