If you harvest them, keep them in a large container. Ripening fruits release ethylene gas which trigger other fruits to ripen. I had to pull 80kg of green tomatoes last year, and 99% ripened.
I ❤️your Song about blight that’s so cute!! You’ve got this love your try or die attitude the Christmas bonus potatoes post blight may be like your early spring parsnips
I am in love with your merch and your planner! I'll defo be purchasing the planner x I had to give my allotment up because I now have 4 jobs but I have a new house with front and back garden so the raised beds are up and running x love your illustrations x
For blight, if you have it, it came from somewhere so it's already in the plots but if you keep them covered properly you can avoid it. I've never had blight before and none of my neighbours grow veg so I think it comes because of the rain. So clean soil and keep them covered probably and you'll have lovely tomatoes. Otherwise go for blight resistant varieties.
The tomatoes can be used. Red ones can be used immediately for pasta sauce and green ones make fried green tomatoes, green tomato chutney. Not completely wasted
Emma you can put your tomatoe plant in your bin. Try sarpo patatoe next year they are blight resistant to, and can be left in the ground. Use your green tomatoes for chutney. Nothing goes to waist. Best of luck
You can compost the plants with blight it will not spread around your plot only toms and potatoes get blight and it doesn’t stay in ground as it’s airborn. We put everything in our compost. You do need to check potatoes but it’s unlikely really.
The exact same thing happened to my tomatoes at my allotment this year. For ages none of them would ripen, and just as they started to turn red… bam, blight. It got my potatoes too. On Tuesday everything was fine, went back on the Friday and everything was beyond saving. I feel your disappointment. Good luck!
Hi Emma. Although originally from London, I now live in Melbourne Australia, where spring is coming in. Just watching my tomato seedlings growing. Hopefully, soon the others will start to shoot (zuccini, cucumber, eggplant, etc.) I enjoy your warm videos.
Hi Emma, sorry you've encountered blight. You need to wash the supporting canes for the tomatoes, if you intend to use them again as the disease can carry on them. Also use the crop asap as they do not store once blight has affected them. The trials of gardening, eh! Have a great gardening week x
I pick lots of my Tom's when they are half red to give the plant more energy to the rest. But as I'm not in an allotment this year so far my tomato's has been great regardless of the rain, I only have a small greenhouse & have many plants outside, don't quote me but I believe blight is generally in confined conditions like greenhouse's or close allotments as more chance of getting it. While in NZ my whole greenhouse was distroyed with blight but the ones outside one were fine ? This year the weather has been ripe for blight.
I've been watching lots of videos where they got it, but some tomatoes were fine. They all said just check each tomatoe, and they all ended up having a great crop. I'm checking my tomatoes every day
Hello Emma. Get this then. I only grow a few veg at home because health dictates I had to give up my allotment. I grew three Tomato plants in pots of compost in my back garden, the middle plant went down with blight, Why??? And why didn’t the other two suffer too ? I always thought that Tomato Blight was caused by Potato Blight, but seeing as I haven’t grown spuds that blew that theory out the window. Oh and don’t put your plants on the compost heap, burn them or put them out for the dustmen. The disease will survive a compost heap. And the infection will spread bad in a poly tunnel or tent like yours.
Ah, mate, not another case of blight, it's really taking out UK gardeners at the moment. I'm still okay, 🤞, and am grateful that I've actually done well on the tomato front given how slim the pickings were until just the last month, or so. I like that you picked the tomatos with their stems, it'll provide with that little extra sustenance now they're off the plant.
Emma, as long as they start blushing, you should still be able to pick them and have them ripen off the vine. i do believe they still need some light, so take them home and put them on the window sill.
Sorry for the bad news, but I did try to tell you... but we all started some where and no doubt I have done the same... Always check the leaf stems for the dreaded brown marks.. They will ripen indoors, with no problems. Leave them out on an open work top, do not keep them in a dark place. Good luck
Foxes are an issue! If only they weren't so cute. Planted 3 beds with seeds but didn't have anything to cover them with that day. Came back the next day and all three beds had been dug over down to the cardboard....compost everywhere and no seeds so I feel for you!! Also with the tomatoes. Seems everyone I've spoken to this year has had to ditch them due to blight, me included. Better luck next year
My tomatoes were the same this year. I have them in an outdoor raised bed. So much rain early summer I had given up but they burst into fruit with the recent heat and then I noticed the blight 😢. Have picked the fruits to (hopefully) ripen on the windowsill and just thrown the plants in my brown bin (council collects for compost) so am pleased to read others comments that the blight wont survive (i'd never thought of it before and so after your comments had a moment of despair that I'd ruined the council's compost!)
Put those tomatoes in a fruit bowl with a ripe banana…they will turn red…it’s not light that ripens tomatoes it’s warmth…they’ll be fine…strange this for me this year…my outdoor toms all got blight..my greenhouse ones were untouched and mega productive…the joys of gardening…lol…really enjoy your vids Emma…xx
Next year Emma if your unlucky enough to get blight again make getting rid of the affected plants your last job then go home .blight can be transferred to other plants via your clothes !!
Take the toms off and put them with banana on windowsill. I’ve had blight for weeks up north in my community garden and still eaten loads of them. Charles dowding composts blighted tomatoes. They are fine in compost. Xx
A few days ago I removed my tomato plants because you could tell they were done for the year. I put them in my compost. Took the four tomatoes 🍅 on them inside and placed them on the counter. Guess what? They turned red. Surprised and happy. Maybe yours will do that too. Take care Emma!
So sorry about the blight. But the tomatoes can still be eaten? That’s great 👍. Do you have to incinerate the plants or can it be disposed of in garden waste? The planner looks amazing 💚
Hi Emma, Check out Charles Dowding's thoughts on Late Blight. Apparently, the spores can only survive on living tissue, so composting infected plants is not a problem! Beware of old wives tales and follow the advice of an expert like Mister Dowding! He knows a thing or two about gardening! Regards Vic
Thats not blight, thats heat stress from the recent hot weather i reckon. Good news is that should mean that the tomatoes will ripen. My blighted tomatoes had black stems, i picked over a hundred green ones and 80% turned brown and rotting in a week.
I’m not sure that was blight. No black patches on your stems. You’ve been keeping your polytunnel shut to help ripen them. My polytunnel (emoty, as just built) hit 54° last week during the heatwave. I wonder if they were just scorched and heat stressed. Be interesting to hear if the harvested ones ripen or rot.
Mix neem oil with water and spray the potatoes plants. And next year if you have tomatoes plants just do the same. You will see that you will never ever have blight again on your plants.
I haven't had blight on my tomatoes and I have 3 different greenhouse on my Allotment with my dad cut all lower leaves off your plants when you get your first fruits it gives better air flow round your plants
Put a banana or ripe pear with the tomatoes it helps them to ripen up the vines will not drybout in a plastic bag they will just go soggy and very smelly if you can get a hot compost pile put them on that it'll kill off the blite spores
In the west midlands we seem to have missed summer completely and today I noticed that I have fruit beginning on my aubergine and courgette plants at last . They are in pots and I dont know if I can bring them indoors . I only got one china jade cucumber and the seeds were pricey I searched everywhere for them this year . My peas vanished, they came up about 3 inches high all 200 of them then one day i went out to water and all gone . I grew champagne rhubarb from seeds was amazed that they grew . I think pigeons had my shallots. Not a good year sadly
I threw 12 plants on the dump last week through blight, even if you pick them they start to perish within a few days, it's caused by a viral infection in the soil / compost & can be passed on by tools used , posably by insects moving from plant to plant, we have had rain sun & more rain with high humidity with only makes it worse even the 3 plants that were not affected they are now looking like they have it
I got blight on my tomatoes. I managed a get about half of the tomatoes I should have had. The problem is I didn't realise either and it spread to all my winter potatoes too. All rotted and turned brown within one week - I don't know if I have to get rid of all the new compose to bought 😢
@@roythompson6137makes sense. If it was that resilient, it’s not only the plants that would need to be destroyed as it’s in the soil. Hire a digger and excavate the whole plot!
Not at all true. Blight is a fungal spore, and REQUIRES living tissue to survive. 7 days is the maximum it can survive in the soil. It’s a persistent old wives tale that it can survive in the soil.
With the empty raised beds, you can try sowing green manures. Re’ potato blight - try Sarpo Mira next year - they’re a main crop that are supposed to be blight resistant so you can leave them in the ground as long as you want, supposedly(?!) I’m going to leave one container until January/February and see if this is true!
Blight is an absolute shit, i have found certain tomato varieties such as sungold seem to succumb to it easily, have been growing crimson crush and crimson blush the last 2 years and no blight! Also a rigorous spraying regime with homemade fungicide helps 👍👍
I’m thinking of trying blight resistant toms next year. Are they any good? Has anyone tried them and can recommend? It’s so frustrating losing them all to blight after all the effort 🙄
Welcome to Blight Club.
I love the planner, will defo be getting one 👏👏👏
Leave the green ones on a sunny window sill
According to Charles Dowding you can put your blight plants in your compost bin xx
If you harvest them, keep them in a large container. Ripening fruits release ethylene gas which trigger other fruits to ripen. I had to pull 80kg of green tomatoes last year, and 99% ripened.
Emma, you can put the tomato plants in a compost heap. A closed one. It only lives on living plants
I ❤️your Song about blight that’s so cute!! You’ve got this love your try or die attitude the Christmas bonus potatoes post blight may be like your early spring parsnips
Thank you Emma lm really sorry you found blight in your poly tunnel and l hope your Christmas potatoes are safe 🎉🎉
I am in love with your merch and your planner! I'll defo be purchasing the planner x I had to give my allotment up because I now have 4 jobs but I have a new house with front and back garden so the raised beds are up and running x love your illustrations x
For blight, if you have it, it came from somewhere so it's already in the plots but if you keep them covered properly you can avoid it. I've never had blight before and none of my neighbours grow veg so I think it comes because of the rain. So clean soil and keep them covered probably and you'll have lovely tomatoes. Otherwise go for blight resistant varieties.
Great tour of your plot and don’t forget to not compost your infected plants 🌱 thanks for sharing your experience in the garden 🪴
Ooh a planner sounds fab 👌
The tomatoes can be used. Red ones can be used immediately for pasta sauce and green ones make fried green tomatoes, green tomato chutney. Not completely wasted
Emma you can put your tomatoe plant in your bin.
Try sarpo patatoe next year they are blight resistant to, and can be left in the ground.
Use your green tomatoes for chutney. Nothing goes to waist.
Best of luck
Wow that planner looks amazing! This year I used a diary and gave up 😂had to wing it but that's brilliant will be purchasing 😊
This is more than a planner it’s the garden bible !
You can compost the plants with blight it will not spread around your plot only toms and potatoes get blight and it doesn’t stay in ground as it’s airborn. We put everything in our compost. You do need to check potatoes but it’s unlikely really.
The exact same thing happened to my tomatoes at my allotment this year. For ages none of them would ripen, and just as they started to turn red… bam, blight. It got my potatoes too. On Tuesday everything was fine, went back on the Friday and everything was beyond saving.
I feel your disappointment. Good luck!
Hi Emma. Although originally from London, I now live in Melbourne Australia, where spring is coming in. Just watching my tomato seedlings growing. Hopefully, soon the others will start to shoot (zuccini, cucumber, eggplant, etc.) I enjoy your warm videos.
I'm having that planner 🍅❤ I can't wait for it thank you Emma for making it. Xxx
Hi Emma, sorry you've encountered blight. You need to wash the supporting canes for the tomatoes, if you intend to use them again as the disease can carry on them. Also use the crop asap as they do not store once blight has affected them. The trials of gardening, eh! Have a great gardening week x
I can't wait for your allotment planner 😊. I love your videos, your personality. You are an inspiration to many people, Emma. ❤
I pick lots of my Tom's when they are half red to give the plant more energy to the rest. But as I'm not in an allotment this year so far my tomato's has been great regardless of the rain, I only have a small greenhouse & have many plants outside, don't quote me but I believe blight is generally in confined conditions like greenhouse's or close allotments as more chance of getting it. While in NZ my whole greenhouse was distroyed with blight but the ones outside one were fine ? This year the weather has been ripe for blight.
Do not dispear there’s always supermarket for tomatoes n your local chippy aka chip shop for spuds aka potatoes..lovin ya blogs emma..enjoy ya garden.
Wrap your green tomatoes in newspaper put them in shoebox or something like it, and put them in dark place ie cupboard they will ripen
Will definitely get a planner when they come out to go with my whack it in mug❤
I've been watching lots of videos where they got it, but some tomatoes were fine. They all said just check each tomatoe, and they all ended up having a great crop.
I'm checking my tomatoes every day
Hello Emma. Get this then. I only grow a few veg at home because health dictates I had to give up my allotment. I grew three Tomato plants in pots of compost in my back garden, the middle plant went down with blight, Why??? And why didn’t the other two suffer too ? I always thought that Tomato Blight was caused by Potato Blight, but seeing as I haven’t grown spuds that blew that theory out the window.
Oh and don’t put your plants on the compost heap, burn them or put them out for the dustmen. The disease will survive a compost heap. And the infection will spread bad in a poly tunnel or tent like yours.
Ah, mate, not another case of blight, it's really taking out UK gardeners at the moment. I'm still okay, 🤞, and am grateful that I've actually done well on the tomato front given how slim the pickings were until just the last month, or so. I like that you picked the tomatos with their stems, it'll provide with that little extra sustenance now they're off the plant.
Emma, as long as they start blushing, you should still be able to pick them and have them ripen off the vine. i do believe they still need some light, so take them home and put them on the window sill.
Sorry for the bad news, but I did try to tell you... but we all started some where and no doubt I have done the same... Always check the leaf stems for the dreaded brown marks..
They will ripen indoors, with no problems. Leave them out on an open work top, do not keep them in a dark place. Good luck
Rocky ❤❤❤
What a shame about the blight. I look forward to the allotment planner
Foxes are an issue! If only they weren't so cute. Planted 3 beds with seeds but didn't have anything to cover them with that day. Came back the next day and all three beds had been dug over down to the cardboard....compost everywhere and no seeds so I feel for you!! Also with the tomatoes. Seems everyone I've spoken to this year has had to ditch them due to blight, me included. Better luck next year
My tomatoes were the same this year. I have them in an outdoor raised bed. So much rain early summer I had given up but they burst into fruit with the recent heat and then I noticed the blight 😢. Have picked the fruits to (hopefully) ripen on the windowsill and just thrown the plants in my brown bin (council collects for compost) so am pleased to read others comments that the blight wont survive (i'd never thought of it before and so after your comments had a moment of despair that I'd ruined the council's compost!)
I had blight on 4 outdoor plants, plus some potatoes. I use soap, neem oil and feed mix in my spray gun. It has cured and full recovery. 😊
Lots of good things to make from green tomatoes. Fried green tomatoes is a favorite of mine.
Put those tomatoes in a fruit bowl with a ripe banana…they will turn red…it’s not light that ripens tomatoes it’s warmth…they’ll be fine…strange this for me this year…my outdoor toms all got blight..my greenhouse ones were untouched and mega productive…the joys of gardening…lol…really enjoy your vids Emma…xx
Once a Tomato starts to ripen , pick it.They can NOT unripen themselves. Cut the dead blight leaves off.
Rocky picture and the bird I will buy
Next year Emma if your unlucky enough to get blight again make getting rid of the affected plants your last job then go home .blight can be transferred to other plants via your clothes !!
I've had the same problem. Pick those toms and let them ripen indoors. If any have spots cut those off and make a green tomato sauce. It's delish!
Sounds like it'll be Crimson Crush next year then
Pick your toms and ripen at home on a window sill.
Love your videos Emma. From SW Washington US 😊
Take the toms off and put them with banana on windowsill. I’ve had blight for weeks up north in my community garden and still eaten loads of them. Charles dowding composts blighted tomatoes. They are fine in compost. Xx
A few days ago I removed my tomato plants because you could tell they were done for the year. I put them in my compost. Took the four tomatoes 🍅 on them inside and placed them on the counter. Guess what? They turned red. Surprised and happy. Maybe yours will do that too. Take care Emma!
So sorry about the blight. But the tomatoes can still be eaten? That’s great 👍. Do you have to incinerate the plants or can it be disposed of in garden waste?
The planner looks amazing 💚
I pulled out all 13 of my tomatoe plants last week, all had blight
Hi Emma,
Check out Charles Dowding's thoughts on Late Blight. Apparently, the spores can only survive on living tissue, so composting infected plants is not a problem! Beware of old wives tales and follow the advice of an expert like Mister Dowding! He knows a thing or two about gardening!
Regards
Vic
Thats not blight, thats heat stress from the recent hot weather i reckon. Good news is that should mean that the tomatoes will ripen. My blighted tomatoes had black stems, i picked over a hundred green ones and 80% turned brown and rotting in a week.
I totally agree it's not blight
I thought this too!
We don’t have blight here in the South Island of New Zealand. The only problems in the garden are the caterpillars!
I’m not sure that was blight. No black patches on your stems.
You’ve been keeping your polytunnel shut to help ripen them. My polytunnel (emoty, as just built) hit 54° last week during the heatwave. I wonder if they were just scorched and heat stressed.
Be interesting to hear if the harvested ones ripen or rot.
Thank you 🙌🏼
You can n still rescue the fruit, just collect them and put them in a paper bag in a dark place for a few days/weeks, they should ripen.
Thank you (aka Darren Dragon) 👌
Pick the toms and they will ripe indoors if not you can make chutney
Mix neem oil with water and spray the potatoes plants. And next year if you have tomatoes plants just do the same. You will see that you will never ever have blight again on your plants.
You know, I don’t know anyone this year whose tomatoes haven’t been blighted - must be perfect conditions this year for it
I haven't had blight on my tomatoes and I have 3 different greenhouse on my Allotment with my dad cut all lower leaves off your plants when you get your first fruits it gives better air flow round your plants
Mine were fine too…but weirdly my early pots got blight no idea how it didn’t spread. Very lucky x
Put a banana or ripe pear with the tomatoes it helps them to ripen up the vines will not drybout in a plastic bag they will just go soggy and very smelly if you can get a hot compost pile put them on that it'll kill off the blite spores
In the west midlands we seem to have missed summer completely and today I noticed that I have fruit beginning on my aubergine and courgette plants at last .
They are in pots and I dont know if I can bring them indoors .
I only got one china jade cucumber and the seeds were pricey I searched everywhere for them this year .
My peas vanished, they came up about 3 inches high all 200 of them then one day i went out to water and all gone .
I grew champagne rhubarb from seeds was amazed that they grew .
I think pigeons had my shallots.
Not a good year sadly
Tomatoes ripen from the inside out. Give those green ones some time and you might be surprised.
I just looked at my Christmas potatoes and I see they also have blight so I've cut it off too😮
Sun gold emma sungold
Spray earlier next year I think!
So sorry the blight got your plants will keep my fingers crossed for the taties, its fine to put them in the compost bin 🥰
Is heat burn on tomatoes leafs not blight
I threw 12 plants on the dump last week through blight, even if you pick them they start to perish within a few days, it's caused by a viral infection in the soil / compost & can be passed on by tools used , posably by insects moving from plant to plant, we have had rain sun & more rain with high humidity with only makes it worse even the 3 plants that were not affected they are now looking like they have it
It’s a fungal infection. It’s carried in rain, not the soil.
Hiya Emma can you advise me on how to purchase one of your design jumpers please 😊
Squirrel eating my patty pans argh
I got blight on my tomatoes. I managed a get about half of the tomatoes I should have had.
The problem is I didn't realise either and it spread to all my winter potatoes too. All rotted and turned brown within one week - I don't know if I have to get rid of all the new compose to bought 😢
My tomatoes plant are fine out side because of heat leafs gone brown not because of blight
Where can we get the planner? Can't wait to get it next month!
Don't compost the blighted plants bin them as it can stay in the soip
Blight won't survive composting...
@@roythompson6137makes sense. If it was that resilient, it’s not only the plants that would need to be destroyed as it’s in the soil. Hire a digger and excavate the whole plot!
Not at all true. Blight is a fungal spore, and REQUIRES living tissue to survive. 7 days is the maximum it can survive in the soil. It’s a persistent old wives tale that it can survive in the soil.
Blight is airborne I think. Should be fine
i dont recommend touching it you can pass it on to other plants
With the empty raised beds, you can try sowing green manures.
Re’ potato blight - try Sarpo Mira next year - they’re a main crop that are supposed to be blight resistant so you can leave them in the ground as long as you want, supposedly(?!) I’m going to leave one container until January/February and see if this is true!
They don't get blight, but they do get massacred by slugs.
I have white on the damp soil under my carrots. I’m wondering if it be will be harmful?
I've not seen any blight here. West wilts 51°north and never ever under cover in my greenhouse in my whole gardening life whatever that is (I'm 84)
My Tomatoes got blight too 😢
There some varieties of blight resistant toms, just saying.
Blight is an absolute shit, i have found certain tomato varieties such as sungold seem to succumb to it easily, have been growing crimson crush and crimson blush the last 2 years and no blight! Also a rigorous spraying regime with homemade fungicide helps 👍👍
I’m thinking of trying blight resistant toms next year. Are they any good? Has anyone tried them and can recommend? It’s so frustrating losing them all to blight after all the effort 🙄
I think that’s a badger a fox wouldn’t rip the compost bag like that
Blight won’t survive in compost
It does work emma cut it off
Just watched this and my fifty years of growing tomatoes 80 odd plants a year I can tell you thats not blight on your tomatoes and potatoes
Where are you Emma?
South London x
@@emmasallotmentdiaries I never see any of your videos anymore on u tube, why?