tomato disaster please help!

My tomatoes are falling off the trusses and seem a bit soft and greyish where the tomato connects to the truss. Iv followed the usual guidlines like iv done over the years but have never had this problem before!

Any ideas anyone?:confused:


All advice most welcome


Linda.

 

It sounds like blight to me, Linda. What do the leaves and stem look like?

 

I agree with Dave, it sounds like blight Linda, i lost all 10 of my tomato plants to it about 3 weeks ago, the blackness will spread up the stem to the fruit, i didn't know what it was at first either but i sure do now :(

 

Sad to say it looks like Robert the reds toms had succumbed to an attack of the blight.
Not suprising really with all the rain we have had.
Seems like a good year for my toms is at an end.
Posted some pictures which I hope will help other members who require info.
You will notice the black areas spreading on the stems and greyish areas on the tomatoes.
Robert

 

well just to let you kow your not on your own as mine are just the same :(

as normal we have had no summer again and everything has suffered im just throwing all my bedding plants and hanging baskets in the bin as im fed up of looking at dead plants

my toms will be next to go i think :(

all that hard work and i ask myself what for ???????????????????????:(:(:(:(:(

 

Sorry to hear about your disaster! Never mind - the great thing about seasons is that you have time to get over it and by next year you will be raring to do it all over again. You also get the chance to do things better - or at least differently - if you want to. I have had some bad plant experiences too this year, including tomatoes, so I sympathise. Like you, I have been frustrated by unusual or inexplicable sickness and death of plants, so I have started to take more cuttings and seeds of stuff in the garden to propagate. It's great to see new cuttings doing well and seeds starting to shoot - kind of makes up for losing stuff. Don't let it get you down! Lindy.

 

I shalll be back next year to do it all over again. I shall know better what I need to do. Besides, it would be very boring if we did the same old thing year after year...........
Things to do
1 Give the runner beans more headroom
2 Dont grow so many tomatoes ( restrict to south facing wall )
3 Only grow potatoes in the bin
5 Try to grow radish again. ( two seeding failed )
6 Look after the strawberries better
7 Dont bother to grow galic
Im sure theres a few more items I need to remember
On the plus side at this time the carrots and parsnips are looking good..
robert

 

Capney,
thanks for the photo's. That is exactly waht my tomatoes look like. i have treid to rescue some and bring indoors to ripen but have lost loads. At least I know what it is now.
How do we prevent it next year??

 

Paula, were yours grown in a greenhouse or outdoors?

 

I had four bought plants - outside and several from seed - outside and several in the green house (a plastic one not glass) that were from seed. The bought ones look the same as the seeded ones in the garden, which has surprised me. And the green hosue ones are not as bad with the grey stems.
Its never happened before and its so disappointing

 

I have had a pretty good crop of my tomatoes this year but the plants are now looking like the ones in Capney's photos

I promise each year that I will not gros so many tomato plants and I can't brings myself to bin those extra seedlings so I get then all crammed in.

The chillis are doing well and so are the aubergines but I'm haivng to share the aubergines with the bugs... It's a fight to see who gets there first.

Given up on the veg. patch this year though. my brocolli looks very sorry for it self...

I have a whole host of things I plan to do next year so the bugs don't get the better of me.

 

I saw what was coming this year and got them off the vines early and ripened them inside. I was a bit slower with the potatoes and had a couple of rotten tubers. Try different varieties and soil next year.

 

I wonder if anyone got lucky and knows of some strains that are more blight resistant?

 

I have one outdoor tom that is hanging on and fighting for survival. It is giving me ripe fruit at this time, For whatever reason it escaped the blight.
Those greenies I salvaged from the blight are ripening everyday in the conservatory.
So overall, not a bad result, but hope for better next year.

 

I should add my one remaining plant is a Gardeners delight.