ADVICE NEEDED greenhouse blight

green house blight it has affected all 8 tommy plants i have cut back affected foliage and removed affected fruit ( bagged ready to burn ) i know that this is a lost cause but i cant just give up on them i planted some of those back in January

i have cues, peppers and a melon growing in there too is this going to affect them too? gutted as this has never happened to me before

 

please any one got any advice on this

 

Keep the windows open 24 hours a day and only water the soil , this will help .

Spruce

 

I have every simpathy my tom's are all-but-dead, soil fungus has killed the lot. I am to say-the-least pretty fed-up no tomato chutney this year, and i ran out about a month ago, and just put a new greenhous in too. see my chat with others in general gardening.
'greeninmanyways'

 

thanks all
to be honest i have cut back so much foliage now there is hardly anything left ! have loads of tommies though just wish they would rippen

i have been really careful of cross contamination too but i think i may well just cut the lot down now i still have the plastic green house so i may just go to local shed a buy one plant so i will at least have something for the grandchildren to steal lol

hi Green see you around the boards

 

If you want the tomatoes to ripen quicker place a banana is close proximity and sure enough they will start to go red!

Kayleigh xx

 

hi and thanks Kayleigh, i did that last week and they have started ripening now,

i think i cut back well enough not to have lost the whole lot, i have been cutting off any affected leaves and i am now seeing a fair bit of good healthy growth and new flowers forming

 

Good minds think alike! I know I probably shouldn't, but I do. For my greenhouse tomatoes I cut off all the leaves, and I mean all. I've done it this way for 3 years and get fantastic tommys each time. All the energy goes to toms then, and because of that you can have more trusses than the 'ideal' 3. On one of my plants I have 7, which are all bearing fruit which are ripening nicely They look a little strange with no leaves but the results are fantastic!

 

well mine are looking alittle odd right now ,just like me

 

Silly sod lol x

 

no seriously i look like this

 

Fantastic X

 

All good advice here, greenhouse blight is a pain, but agree that trimming back the affected foliage and only watering the soil is beneficial. It can be great for fruit too, I find cutting back the leaves creates plumper tommys! Yum!