Woodlands World: 2nd Post Today! Is This Blight?

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

2nd Post Today! Is This Blight?

Is this Blight then??

I really hope its not, I don't remember it being here last time I looked!!! If it is I am going to lose at least 9 tomato plants, I shall have to dig up all the potatoes!

6 comments:

kate said...: I hope that isn't blight ... I wish I could be of help. Your knitting is beautiful!; 26/7/07 6:35 am
Anonymous said...: Hi libby,
I wouldn't recognise blight but I would visit www.topveg.com and ask them about blight in tomatoes as they will tell you what it looks like. I always visit TopVeg for my veg gardening advice - they are so helpful.
Hope that helps and hope it isn't blight.
Sara from farmingfriends; 26/7/07 8:31 am
Gretel said...: Could well be, with all the damp, mild weather. I know it is a nightmare year for tomatoes, my friend in Cornwell has blight - we are ok so far touchwood, but we should be eating the darned things by now, not still watching the flowers!; 26/7/07 10:07 am
Anonymous said...: Its a bit difficult to tell from the photo - it could be a lack of magnesium - due to all the rains.

You could try epsom salts; 26/7/07 7:10 pm
smilnsigh said...: I don't know but could it be from lots of rain?

Mari-Nanci; 27/7/07 1:15 am
Yolanda Elizabet Heuzen said...: Libby if you link to
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/cropindex.htm
you'll get the Disease Fact Sheets page and it is listed by crop. Click on tomato and you'll get a lot of info about tomato diseases and there are some clear pics of the problems too. Hope this helps!; 27/7/07 8:17 am

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