What’s wrong with my tomato plants ?

[DustyLee123]

The leaves have started going brown very quickly, and there’s dark brown patches on the stems. A couple of the unripe tomatoes have gone brown too.

sounds like blight, you need to cut off the affective areas asap and burn them, or dispose of without adding to your compost.

The brown/black patches are in the main stem

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It sounds very much like blight. It does turn the stems and fruit brown. You might want to pick any unripe fruit and try to ripen inside, or look up green tomato recipes. Blight thrives in cool, damp conditions, which is exactly what we have been having.

Sounds like blight. Decimates plants in a nano second.

So take off the green tomatoes and hope they ripen ?
I do wonder if growing your own is worth it, I’ve definitely not had enough tomatoes to off set what I’ve paid out.

Growing your own is not necessarily worth it financially, the benefit is in better taste and being able to grow things that aren’t in the shops. N the other hand, tomatoes can usually be relied upon to make a profit.

Every gardener has crop failures, but they don’t happen every year. If you’d been growing last year you’d have been cock-a-hoop at the results. A friend of mine, a talented gardener and manager if a garden centre, said “I never give up on a plant until I’ve well and truly killed it three times”

Forgive typos, cat is helping me

“I never give up on a plant until I’ve well and truly killed it three times”

Love this and will be adopting this philosophy from now on 😅

Thanks all, I’ve given in and got rid. Tomatoes are on the windowsill so fingers crossed I get at least one.
My strawberries have been a failure too.

Both glad and gutted I stoned over this thread. I'm growing two species of tomatoes and one of them has just seemingly given up this last week. I've got a whopping 6 tomatoes the size of plums from it. In coast the Rosella plants I bought that are grafted are still holding on and trying desperately to Produce fruit. My melons are rotting due to the constant Damp but my cucumbers are going great guns.

Blight, because of all the rain. You can buy blight resistant tomatoes. Make sure you keep the leaves away from any compost you're planning to use to grow potatoes or tomatoes next year.

as per my name.....I love a nice garden but need plants that are human resistant. If it needs any kind of intervention it's sianara.

maybe try cherry tomato plants next year, they are imo easier to grow and you get a good number of tomatoes. I have never had much success with strawberries, and also find raspberries much easier as they pretty much do their own thing apart from pruning once a year and a bit of feed.