![]() ![]() now with what you've said I'm wondering if I should avoid the late evening one. Now I've always watered early morning/late evening. I would be inclined towards watering early morning as mid day watering can cause the risk of leaf burn in the sun if you're a careless waterer :) if you just water the ground mid day should be fine. I'm not sure how the copper thing works, but I don't think it's soil deficieny that causes you to get blight, in face I'm surprised you get it in Britanny (something for me to experience when I move next year!)īeing from Ireland blight is a yearly problem for me with my potatoes, I've always blamed the fact my tomatoes aren't that far from my spuds, britanny being a farming community I would suspect a lot of spuds are grown in the area which could be the main problem.īlight is a fungus which thrives in cool, wet or humid weather, the fungus produces spores can travel I think up to approx 10 miles in wind-blown rain. They seemed to really like it and the unhealthy leaves on them are gone in two weeks. Bon apetit!īy the way, I got carried away and sprayed my roses with the milk mixture as they were looking a bit peaked. The blight is gone and the plants are growing again sans blight! I'm just tickled and thought I'd share with gardeners out there who are in danger of losing their plants. A week or so later I fed them with a good quality fertiliser - e VOILA. He said you can put cornmeal, but not the cullinary kind. I spread compost again around all the tomato plants, as he had advised. ![]() This was his advice and I followed it to the letter. And I was careful to spray earlier in the day so that nothing was wet as evening set in. I did all the spraying, by the way, in reasonably sunny weather so that everything dried fairly quickly. I sprayed them until they were dripping and looked fairly white. Then I sprayed them again with a half and half mixture of low fat milk and water. I left them this way for two or three days further. The blighted leaves shriveled and crumbled. In a couple days, the stems that had been black and blighty turned silvery. I did this twice on every plant, two days apart. Then I squirted this all over the tomato plants until they were thoroughly drenched. Here's what I did - Based more or less on his instructions, I dissolved a few heaping tablespoons of BAKING SODA in a three litre pitcher of water and poured some into a sprayer I use to sprinkle the ironing. Several of my plants are still trying to regain the foliage I pulled off them to try to stem the blight, but they are looking better all the time. I haven't had another branch go black and blighty, nor any tomatoes sprout that aren't healthy. Well, the organic fellas method is cheap - and it worked. ![]() I'd already pulled up and burned half my plants. Meanwhile, I got a response from an organic gardener in the United States and tried their method thinking I had little to lose. I received some dire predictions then that there were some chemicals out there, and a few Bretonne ideas that may work but had to be used when planting. Several weeks ago I'd posted on here asking if anyone had a cure to late blight in Tomatoes. Here again is the last post I'd done on this after using the USA "cure" that was sent to me: ![]()
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