Tomato blight

[olivethegreat]

Is this blight?

I fear so?

Should I just bin them all? These are my cordons. I have tumbling Tom's in hanging baskets which seem ok , yellow leaves but not these markings .

Yes, it is unfortunately. I have it too.

The 1st pic, the plant is definitely a gonner. If the 2nd pic, the blight is only on the leaves and not the main stem, you could chop off the bad and close leaves, and hope.

You know not to compost, right? And clean secateurs, etc?

It's shit this gardening year!

Yes I've already put a couple in the council green bin. I've just used garden scissors and was going to run them through the dishwasher ....?! I think it's spreading because these ones were ok a couple of days ago.

Most of them are in black bags (plant bags), which I was planning to use for potatoes next year. Will the bags be infected ?

Right going to bin the ones in the ground and the bag ones with black stems and see what's left! I'm just wondering whether to bin all the cordon ones to try and prevent it spreading to my hanging baskets ones though? The cordons were all far too close together (I have since realised)

Am left with one cordon but I think there may be blight right at the base , will have to wait and see.

And I think the tumbling toms may have it too which is so sad as they are bursting with millions of lovely looking tomatoes ! Some of them are nearly ripe so just going to leave them and see if I can get a small harvest before they die . Does this also mean I can't use those baskets again for toms?

Sorry you've got it too@TheSpottedZebra , so sad when all that care and attention comes to nothing

I wouldn't reuse the soil for tomatoes OR potatoes unfortunately - they're in the same family and can both get (this) blight, and it can pass from one to the other. You could use for another plant family, like courgettes or beans. Your tumbing ones are more likely to be able to outgrow it, and you can more easily chop bits out as they don't have the one main stem, so don't give up hope yet!

It's the weather that's done it. All those warm muggy, sweaty but not bright sunlight days are perfect for blight. Maybe planting further apart would help a tiny bit, but when blight comes in it will blast through the row or patch whether they were 10 or 50cm apart.

I have an allotment and had to take put more plants this morning. I've left a few butnthey will probably have to go too. My home tomatoes are OK....so far.

Thanks @TheSpottedZebra yes fingers crossed for the tumblers! I've chucked the soil , will the containers be ok next year ?