they are all dying....

[puddlejumper007]

i thought i had been lucky and the tomato blight skipped over me...picked tomatoes three days ago, they looked fine today, plant a dying. i picked all th tomatoes i could and some green ones that will turn,,
ok now i have to burn the plants, and what about the tomato cages? do i have to do something to them to be able to use them next year? darn darn my first year of a abundance of tomatoes...

[How Do I]

Water/bleach & squirt dish-washing detergent mixture should sterilize it fine. We finally got blight this year too.

[Missy M]

Ditto on the blight. I thought I had dodged it, my tomatoes were awsome then all of a sudden, Yeah you guess it. Even the ones I picked to ripen later rotten on the bottoms before the tops were even half ripe.

[mommagoose_99]

Do not worry about the tomato cages. The Late Blight spores only live on living plant tissue. Cornell says as soon as the plants die so do the spores. I wonder how that can be when the spores are traveling on the wind and infecting other gardens but that is what they told me. I am praying that we will indeed have a clean slte for next year.
Linda

[Paquebot]

Spores are only released from infected living plants. By the time you see that you have it, it's probably already sent some live spores off in the wind to land on another living plant.

Lots of panic here with everyone asking me what to do with their tomato plants. I tell them to either leave them where they are or throw them on the weed pile. Blight will die either way.

Martin

[puddlejumper007]

thanks martin just what i needed to hear...