A friend of mine met a wonderful woman while shopping and got to talking with her; turns out this woman had more tomatoes than she could handle and invited my friend and her family over to pick tomatoes for canning! I'm secretly quite jealous of the tomato windfall:) but also touched by this stranger's generosity and thoughtfulness!

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Well, I don't want to rub it in, but you asked for some good news. I have TONS of tomatoes, have frozen 5 bags already, and can't get rid of my extras! I had powdery mildew on my gourds and pumpkins earlier this year and had to use a fungicide on the whole garden. ( I tried natural cures first with no luck- milk, oil and baking soda) I wonder if that is why my tomatoes are so plentiful and not suffering from the blight????

Between blight and the Japanese beetles, I'm getting frustrated with growing stuff! My tomatoes look awful so I'll bag 'em too.

Thanks Ann marie-
My hubby is the gardener and as soon as I read this article I knew I had to forward it on to him. That was this morning....and now as I am typing he is in the garden bagging up our tomatoes and checking the rest of our veggies!!! Should we be doing anything to the soil? I think our potted tomatoes are ok. :)

Thanks for the info!

I, too, had to pull & dispose of my tomatoes. Just in case I missed part of the plants or roots, is it recommended to rotate the garden and plant something else in that space next year? Is there a chemical or fertilizer that will "detox" the soil?

So many plants, so little fruit.......:=(

skinny-

Here's a response to your question from Mike Maddox:

From my understanding, late blight will last from season to season in infested plant material left in the garden. This is why we emphasize the removal and proper disposal of the plants.

In never hurts to disinfect your containers in the spring each year- soak in 10% bleach water overnight and then scrub out with a detergent (I did this to hundreds of pots each week when I worked at a greenhouse in college!).

Septoria Leaf Spot is as bad as it has ever been on my crop, but at least that doesn't effect the fruit. We have a very late crop this year - just really going now. Everything is started from seed in my garden, so I think that is keeping the late blight away (knock on wood).

All our tomatoes were pulled out last weekend. Guess no canning of sauce or juice this year.
On the upside, our peppers are doing well and the wild vine in the compost pile is taking over the yard with tons of somethings on it. I think they are gourds, but not sure. The vine is even climbing the tree and there are gourds or squash HANGING in the air!

we also pulled all of our tomato plants because of the same thing. So much for tomato soup this year!

Question: I planted my tomatoes in containers. Since I have some type of blight, is there any special treatment I have to give the containers if I want to try again next year, using these containers?
Thanks for any advice!

I am so sorry I can't give you good news. The best news I can give you is that once I read about your loss and sadness, I didn't feel so alone in mine over my tomatoes!!!! Misery does love company :)I just bagged mine tonight...