Does Blight Over Winter In Your Garden Soil? How To Control Blight In Your Garden | Gardening

Tomato blight can destroy a crop if not managed properly. This gardening in Canada video looks at tomato blight and how to control it in your garden.

Another option is blight resistant tomatoes:

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Ashley is a soil scientist who has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Another option is blight resistant tomatoes:

[gardenstatesowandsew]

Thank you. I got late blight this year. I was so happy I didn’t get the early blight. This is the first year I pruned them up away from the soil. They did very well. I had well over 100 plants because I went kind of overboard on my first year going by seed 😂 I’m going to have to control myself this spring. I’m 53 and I have lots of pain. I took on way to much trying to take care of all of those tomatoes and all of the rest of the garden. It way so much fun though! I can’t even wait for spring and fall is just beginning 😂

[thereseboogades]

Great topic 😊 You always provide additional information from your research & education. Love it! Yep, I'm quite familiar with blight on tomatoes & roses; yet, not the specifics you provide. I'll now try to focus on prevention. Happy to report I had NO Blight & my best year, now that's from 30 years playing around with tomatoes & trying to apply techniques. All the plants were healthy & produced well. Last harvest was Dec 2nd in zone 8b; the green tomatoes are ripening on the vines indoors. I used my own compost added to some of my clay & top quality bagged compost with marine components - quite rich soil. Fish emulsion, worm castings, organic fertilizer when plant growth started to slow. I made new trellises & use the string method; plenty of air flow. Warm water when temps started cooling. Birds & predator bugs took care of pests. 4 plants, many baskets of grape tomatoes, as in several hundreds to 1000: Sun Gold, Sweet 100 & Rapunzel. Heck, I have 200+ right now, Dec 9th. Last year was also good. 😊 Greetings from Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. Merry Christmas all

[cindyklasson]

Your hair looks great! Thanks for the video.

[marcelacecil]

I’ m in the Seattle growing area and I appreciate this episode. It seems that late blight is an every year occurrence here and I have to agree with you. I don’t get worked up about it mostly because by then I have harvested a TON of tomatoes and I am happy to just be done with the garden. Your scientific approach to garden is awesome, thanks for doing all the research on current garden thinking so we don’t have to!

[johnjude]

I already hit thumbs-up when you get the time you always have great information and agree with Gardener Scott you are full of great information Thanks Lady

[michaelarchambault]

Non-lurking plant geek here. Great info and you look particularly great today. Cheers

[JenB.]

I fought with my potatoes this year. Thank you for the information. I am going to make note of it in my journal so I have it for next year's planting.

[annelm]

Thank you for showing what this looks like, I had no idea what it was... I would love and appreciate an episode on the various disease and pests of tomatoes and how to get rid of or prevent... I've tried looking things up but I can't identify... This year I've seen things I've never seen before on my tomatoes... Between disease and pests my plants really suffered

Great video.

I bought a copper fungicide, bone meal, etc which I planned to use this year. Health issues and the heat changed the scenario and all I did was plant the seedlings, some late. I have blight and the tomatoes growing have blossom end rot even though I water every day.

I do have a bumper crop of poison ivy and Canadian thistle.

[NorAnon]

Thank you! It was the coldest, rainy summer ever, in Maine!🙏🏻💕

[growclipbonsaiforseniors]

Tea & a very informative video. Don’t forget to wipe your pruners with peroxide or rubbing alcohol to prevent the spread of blight to healthy plants after pruning off the infected plants.

[mandyg]

Oh my goodness this got my tomatos, cucumbers, melons and squash!

[Gardenfrog]

Thanks for the great info on blight.
I’m looking forward to the upcoming video you mentioned about closing down the garden for the season.

[jaydunnavoci]

Blight resistant varieties, while expensive, can almost entirely solve this problem. I like Mountain Merit.

[kariannecrysler]

It’s good to know this. I have not had it happen here, but am glad to know if it does what I need to do 😊

[bdgackle]

If you've never done a Kratky hydroponics grow on a plant in a 5 gallon bucket its worth doing. Cherry tomatoes work well. Great way to see the roots.

Edit: sorry, meant to leave this comment on the "should you cut dead leaves" in response to the discussion of biomass above vs below ground.

[rahkielsingh]

Brown leaf spot septoria is on everything in the northeast the past 2 seasons. Learning how to prevent it and beat it finally. Lots of compost and compost teas ideally mushroom. Fermented Horsetail tea, Cease Biofungicide and millstop

[marquanreese]

I use crab meal as a prevenative. Never had an issue.

[jean-marclariviere]

Thank you, got blight, did apply treatment but still got it, no worries..from me, like you said, did get tomatoes...