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Post by mangetout on Jul 30, 2021 14:07:58 GMT 1
Over the years I've suffered many attacks of blight on my toms. This year, for the first time, I've decided to ignore it and see what happens. I've cut off all the affected leaves and toms and will wait and see what happens. Interestingly, it's the cherry toms which are worse affected. The beef and medium size toms are OK ish so far. I plant my different varieties a long way apart and that helps.
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Post by ibis on Jul 30, 2021 14:13:45 GMT 1
If you want to sacrifice flavor for quantity then use them. Plum are the best for sun or machine drying and sauce.
Slicing them to dry??? Tomato crisps???
Suggest if you are going to slice them and dry them like bananas I would make a powder of the first tray of dried slices and sprinkle on each tray after that boosting the flavor you lose from slicing and drying.
Little 'uns are cut in half. Bigguns sliced to about 8-10mm thickness. Dried until still pliable & then frozen. Maybe dehydrated is a better term although 'sun dried' doesn't seem to offend the pedants. Worked well for me for yonks & I've never heard that sliced & dried toms lose flavour, in fact common wisdom suggests it concentrates the flavour so I don't understand your 'sacrifice flavor for quantity' comment.
'Dry them like bananas'??
Are you comparing flavor of tomato slices to full plum tomatoes when dried? Again, it's quantity over quality so I will let you continue with your ways.
banana chips or small slices dehydrated and sold everywhere in the world to answer your common wisdom question.
happy gardening
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Post by bubbles1 on Aug 6, 2021 20:45:50 GMT 1
Interesting to read about possibly the blight remains in the soil. I have grow my 6/8 tom plants in our little patch for years and last year we had the dreaded blight. This year I sprayed them and still got it - so that may explain why - Ill grow pepers and chillis there next year and grow the toms somewhereelse. Someone said to me today that you should not eat the toms from the plant with blight? My cherry ones at the top of the plant seem fine and I pick them the minute they turn red. Has anyone else heard that you should not eat toms from a blighted plant?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2021 21:14:00 GMT 1
I’m in Brittany and I don’t know whats effecting tomato plants this year but it’s not like normal tomato blight. I’ve been removing affected leaves for weeks now and have found the plant never completely succumbs in a short time like normal blight. New growth is continuing and tomatoes are ripening for both my greenhouse and outdoor tomatoes. Fingers crossed for a normal crop...
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Post by gigi on Aug 6, 2021 21:18:13 GMT 1
I prefer to burn or otherwise destroy plants with blight, unless they are only very lightly affected. If you want to pick tomatoes from plants with blight, it would be best to wash them in a mild bleach solution in case spores are on them, then rinse in water.
Bubbles, it would be best not to plant more of the solanaceous family, such as peppers and aubergines, where the blighted tomatoes grew, although crop rotation is generally a good idea.
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Post by catrose on Aug 7, 2021 9:06:15 GMT 1
Ours aren’t doing too badly (maybe my garlic spay has helped?) but everyone round here is suffering badly so I will probably get out the steam cleaner before next year... Bought one but gave up using it in the house as floor has to be clean first tor it streaks, and not cleaning floors twice! But now use it to sterilise areas of soil. A bit tedious, as have to move it every 5 minutes but for small areas it helps. also going to go for more resistant varieties www.rustica.fr/legumes-et-potager/nouvelles-varietes-tomates-qui-resistent-aux-maladies,15003.html
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Post by Nifty on Nov 15, 2022 10:48:11 GMT 1
Oh for the joys of gardening.
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Post by cernunnos on Nov 15, 2022 11:59:31 GMT 1
No blight this year Nifty , climate change has helped that !
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Post by Nifty on Nov 15, 2022 12:11:32 GMT 1
No garden. Just a pot plant on the window sill.
Which reminds me, perhaps the landlord needs reminding about his responsibility to honour the contract for the grass cutting that he demands an arm and a leg for.
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Post by cernunnos on Nov 15, 2022 19:18:12 GMT 1
No garden. Just a pot plant on the window sill. Which reminds me, perhaps the landlord needs reminding about his responsibility to honour the contract for the grass cutting that he demands an arm and a leg for. just a two year contract then ?
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Post by Nifty on Nov 15, 2022 20:10:29 GMT 1
Three
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Post by cernunnos on Nov 16, 2022 8:51:48 GMT 1
You and half the wife ?
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Post by Nifty on Nov 16, 2022 11:00:37 GMT 1
The grass is too wet and there is a hole in the bucket
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Post by Polarengineer on Nov 16, 2022 15:40:14 GMT 1
Yes but the hole is at the top, and they are not selling any beer.
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Post by cernunnos on Nov 17, 2022 9:27:32 GMT 1
Still no tomato blight here , maybe it will start with the damp weather .
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