Blight and next year tomatoes

**veggiechicken** · 05-10-2019, 01:47 PM

Was it Blight or botrytis?

**Atta** · 05-10-2019, 01:58 PM

Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post

Was it Blight or botrytis?

Blight only from what I saw

**ameno** · 05-10-2019, 02:22 PM

If it is blight, it's perfectly safe to replant next year.
Both living blight and the spores can't survive long without a living host, so without one will die over winter. Usually it over-winters on potato tubers, which then start growing again next year and spread the blight anew.

**Thelma Sanders** · 05-10-2019, 02:29 PM

So far in the UK blight spores have not survived over winter, they can only survive on living material. eg Toms or potatoes plants and/or tubers/fruit left lying about on the surface.
Make sure you cover your pulled tomato plants until they've rotted away, or put them in your garden waste bin at home, if you have one.
It's never good practise to plant things in exactly the same place/soil next year. Perhaps dig out a shovelful of earth and replace with a shovelful from elsewhere, before you plant next years toms in their places.

**Jungle Jane** · 05-10-2019, 04:53 PM

I’d dig out the top couple of inches of soil,put it elsewhere. Dig up some soil from somewhere that hasn’t had any nightshade family growing in it,to replace it.

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