I didn't plant tomatos this year, because last year tomato blight killed off the plants. I used to get decent crops but over the last few years the blight has gotten worse and worse until last year was a total disaster. Any advice on how to deal with
tomato blight?

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On 6/2/2024 10:49 AM, Wanderer wrote:

I didn't plant tomatos this year, because last year tomato blight killed off the plants. I used to get decent crops but over the last few years the blight has gotten worse and worse until last year was a total disaster. Any advice on how to deal with

tomato blight?
We try to use a different plot, but read a bit that some calcium, maybe egg shells, put in the transplant hole will help with Blossom Rot.

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On 6/2/2024 9:55 AM, Wilson wrote:

On 6/2/2024 10:49 AM, Wanderer wrote:

I didn't plant tomatos this year, because last year tomato blight
killed off the plants. I used to get decent crops but over the last
few years the blight has gotten worse and worse until last year was a
total disaster. Any advice on how to deal with tomato blight?

We try to use a different plot, but read a bit that some calcium, maybe
egg shells, put in the transplant hole will help with Blossom Rot.

I think he was talking about a fungal blight - I use Dipel
anti-fungal and keep water from splashing up onto the plant . The fungus
comes from the soil so if you keep splashing down it helps a lot. You're
right about the eggshells and moving the location every year . When I
plant my tomatoes I put 2 tbsp of a mixture of equal parts Epsom salts , 13-13-13 fertilizer and crushed eggshells mixed with some dirt in the
bottom of the hole .
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Wanderer wrote:

I didn't plant tomatos this year, because last year tomato blight
killed off the plants. I used to get decent crops but over the last
few years the blight has gotten worse and worse until last year was a
total disaster. Any advice on how to deal with tomato blight?

Plant blight-resistant varieties. e.g. mountain-magic etc, or plum
regal. Expensive seed, but at least you gat tomatoes.

With standard varieties it's better if you can plant in a sheltered
location where the foliage does not get wet. And obviously you never
put a diseased plant in your compost heap.
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Wanderer wrote:

I didn't plant tomatos this year, because last year tomato blight killed off the plants. I used to get decent crops but over the last few years the blight has gotten worse and worse until last year was a total disaster. Any advice on how to deal with

tomato blight?

we have some kind of disease that gets the tomatoes
each year, but normally i can get a decent crop anyways
(20 - 40lbs per plant and sometimes even more a two
years ago i got 60+ lbs per plant).

what varieties have you tried to grow?

the past handfull of years we've mainly grown Big
Beef and they are firm, good tasting beefsteaks which
are what we like for canning.


songbird

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Snag wrote:

On 6/2/2024 9:55 AM, Wilson wrote:

We try to use a different plot, but read a bit that some calcium, maybe
egg shells, put in the transplant hole will help with Blossom Rot.

I think he was talking about a fungal blight - I use Dipel
anti-fungal and keep water from splashing up onto the plant . The fungus >comes from the soil so if you keep splashing down it helps a lot. You're >right about the eggshells and moving the location every year . When I
plant my tomatoes I put 2 tbsp of a mixture of equal parts Epsom salts , >13-13-13 fertilizer and crushed eggshells mixed with some dirt in the
bottom of the hole .
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The first year, I think it was early blight. It effected the tomato at the
stem and made the tomato fall off before turning red. Last year it attacked
the leaves. They would turn brown and I tried cutting them off to save the plant but the plants died before giving me tomatos.

I do put eggshells in the compost. Epsom salts? I'll have to get some and experiment.

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songbird wrote:

what varieties have you tried to grow?

About 8 years ago I bought a bunch of Ukrainian heirloom tomatos.

Malinoviy Dzin
Amurskiy Tigr
Sibirskiy Malakhit
Balkonnoye Chudo
Damskiy Ugodnik
Sibirskiy Kozyr
Graffiti Krasnyy
Kolumbiya

Initially I had a lot of success. I threw rotten tomatos in the
compost and tomatos grew like weeds and I save the seeds. I grow
what I call 'overwinter tomatos'. I plant tomatos in pots in August
and leave them on the window sill all winter. It's too cold in my
house to grow seedlings in the spring. The plants don't really grow in the winter but they survive. Until the blight hit, I had tomatos.

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On 6/2/2024 4:50 PM, Bob F wrote:

On 6/2/2024 9:24 AM, Snag wrote:

On 6/2/2024 9:55 AM, Wilson wrote:

On 6/2/2024 10:49 AM, Wanderer wrote:

I didn't plant tomatos this year, because last year tomato blight
killed off the plants. I used to get decent crops but over the last
few years the blight has gotten worse and worse until last year was
a total disaster. Any advice on how to deal with tomato blight?

We try to use a different plot, but read a bit that some calcium,
maybe egg shells, put in the transplant hole will help with Blossom Rot.

   I think he was talking about a fungal blight - I use Dipel
anti-fungal and keep water from splashing up onto the plant . The
fungus comes from the soil so if you keep splashing down it helps a
lot. You're right about the eggshells and moving the location every
year . When I plant my tomatoes I put 2 tbsp of a mixture of equal
parts Epsom salts , 13-13-13 fertilizer and crushed eggshells mixed
with some dirt in the bottom of the hole .

Would a ground cover cloth- like the sheets people lay down to stop
weeds, reduce the splashing spread of fungus?

It will help , but needs to fit fairly closely around the stem to work
really well . I cut a pie tin sized hole in the weed barrier to plant ,
then use pieces of light cardboard to cover most of the dirt once the
plants are well established .
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