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
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 😂
@@GardeningInCanada I’m trying so hard to find natural ways to help myself feel better due to 4 possibly 5 autoimmune diseases. I’m definitely growing inside greens and herbs in my green stalk this winter. I hope it does well. I have a sunroom ❤️
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!
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
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
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.
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
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.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful info! Gardening in central Alberta & the deer loved all my tomatoes & potato tops but I did get a medium yield in spite of the grazing!
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.
we started out cool then extreme heatwave then back to lots of rain and cool off where im at in nova scotia... my Tomato plants were looking like yours then Fiona came throu flattened them all... staked them back up as best as I could but they are a sight for sore eyes now... but overall they produced well and what is left on the vines are ripening ... and hope for better weather next year ;)
15 plants an only had 37 tomatoes fall off the vines during Fiona an my biggest beefsteak held firm an is now a wonderful pumpkin orange color... Friday before Fiona came threw that night it was still green shouldered but the stress really have them turning now
I have late blight already in NE Ohio June 11. Partially rotated crops in 12x10 hoop house. 4 sections, 2 are tomatoes, 2 are cucumbers. The tomatoes that are growing where tomatoes were last year have blight, those that were planted where cucumbers were do not. Late blight kills blooms, leaves and eventually the whole plant. I guess I should've started fungicide a little earlier. We have tomatoes outside, they're all fine. I'm sure outside will get early blight but that never seems to hurt the tomato yield.
Well I was so excited to get tomato plants. They were from other gardeners and I was suspicious about a purple Cherokee I had purchased due to its lower leaves being black on the tips but being a newbie I ignored it and brought it home to of course infect everything around it ! Well I have to get rid of it which I will do tomorrow along with other plants that seem to have been exposed very disappointing but a learning experience thanks for your video
I’ve got early blight, it was in the soil and I’ve been using peas instead as an alternative crop for 3 years, I finally put tomatoes back in and within weeks there all infected!
Hi there, I think I got late blight from the garden centre this year. I bought a tomato plant that had dark spots on it and I didn't know at the time what it was. It didn't spread initially until later in the season when we had a week of cool rainy weather. I am going to remove my plants. I have already removed some leafs before I knew what it was and did throw them in the compost pile. Is there any chance the late blight can survive on tomato plant cuttings through the winter in a compost pile? I live in Southern Ontario. Thanks!
At 6:59 you mention GDU's? I tried searching for GDU and found nothing. Did I hear that wrong? I wasn't sure what the graph you showed a couple seconds later was supposed to do for us either. Could you give a link or provide more information? Thanks.
Lesions are bad, huh? OK, Bell Peppers, being in the nightshade family, are they also susceptible to blight? I have a couple leaves that are sort of cracked looking with dry edges. Otherwise they look healthy. Should I remove those leaves?
You hair looks great! Hey did you happen to see the article on Google about how Glyphosate is causing seizures in worms at 300 times the lowest delusion? Was apparently just descovered. Now I am wanting to add more weed control to my landscaping business and be a good educator to my clients, I love selective herbicides but I am concerned about soil life, I don't want to write too much here but I am looking for solutions to kill weeds, not grass, and not soil life. Any ideas would be amazing.
what is the best type of sprayer to apply fungicide? I don't prune my tomatoes and they get thick and hard to penetrate with a pump sprayer. I saw a mosquito fogger being used. It applied a thick fog with enough force to reach 20-30 feet. It seemed like a perfect solution. I have 110 tomato plants, 200 cucumber plants and 200 zucchini. I get hammered with blight
Hi Ashley, I remember you previously mentioned in a video that hot composting had never worked for you so you stick with Bokashi. Is it time for an update?
I use Liquid Copper Fungicide which helps with many common diseases of plants. Blight, mildew, rust etc. maybe try making a Lactic Acid bacteria spray?
@@GardeningInCanada yes . I spray on my mint plants ( rust infection) then cut off the infected dead leaves! It does prevent the disease from spreading and killing further!
Seems like a different in areas of my 4 ways to garden experiment as I'm testing 4 methods Seems less effective then 3th season no tilt has the early problems and we'll drainage doing best all my tomato plants were well prune to much the same way. Sounds like crap happens I had thought some were breed not to have blight. Midnight Snack has been the healthier 2 plants in my garden of 26 types
I had tomato blight this year but I can’t blame anyone’s mother or neighbour. On two separate occasions I accidentally left the sprinkler on all night. Once, I can forgive myself. Twice… I should have to pay extra taxes for being so stupid. Plus the fact that it was a pretty wet summer in Brockville, ON to begin with. I really need to get that drip irrigation with a timer installed. I have everything I need except time!
I have blight on my Cantelopes and Tomatoes, I am growing them in grow bags so is it best to just discard the whole bag. This is first time ever growing anything and had a lot of success but did get the blight late in the growing season. Also is the the tomatoes and Cantelope still edible? I’m new at this so learning as I go.
Im curious if you have ever looked into aloe vera as a fungicide? I’m currently doing an experiment to see how effective it is against PWM and so far it is working on the leaves that I rubbed aloe gel on. Just wanted to know if u had found scientific studies about this?
Usually get “early” blight in late July/early August in central UK. But manage to harvest at least one truss of red or two trusses of blushing tomatoes btt it appears. This year I grew over 100 well spaced out determinate paste tomato plants to ensure one good truss per plant for processing. It was a long very hot, dry summer and despite the occasional blossoms appearing during particularly hot waves of over 104 degrees that failed to pollinate, I’ve suffered having to process at least three years worth of every tomato based product you can think of! 😩😩😩 #Onceinalifetime #Neveragain 😂
It has been a number of years since I have had to cope with blight. So I am a lucky-boy. I am wondering though, could our issue be that gardeners are using their compost too soon? It may be finished compost but still too "fresh?" I could be "jinx-ing" myself for next year mentioning this but here I go...Since curing/aging my compost these issues seem to be less of a concern. One thing that I don't miss are those Scarlet Lily Beetles. It may not be from my methods, that could just be there are fewer gardeners growing lily plants so there is less for the to munch on.
Thanks for the video, Ashley. Does bacterial leaf spot overwinter in the soil? My basil plant had some infected leaves, I removed them and things were fine until it rained and/or I happened to shower the plant. Is it okay to just remove leaves or does the entire plant and soil need to be disposed of?
I’m curious at how effective preventive application of fungicide is. If you apply a fungicide as directed, can you ward off late blight (assuming you’re taking other normal precautions) or are you simply delaying the inevitable? I’ll be using preventative fungicide this year, but I just want to set my expectations accurately.
After years of losing all my tomatoes to diseases despite spraying various fungicides I had a diseased tomato plant tested and learned it was bacterial = Clavibacter MIchiganesesis pv Michiganensis (CMM) or Bacterial Canker.
I’m losing my entire garden to lord and fungus right now. I caught the downy mildew on my zuchinni too ate, now it’s on my pumpkin plants and the black mold on my tomato plants spread and now I have like actual black hairy mold on my whole basil bush and I’m just drowning in fungus!! The wild fruit trees in my yard have had shot hole diseas for years and the leaves fall everywhere and I don’t know how I’m going to recover from this 😭 😫 😩
Oh that’s an Elaine Ingram theory. I’m not confident that’s true. I believe rotation is healthy. Because even forests will get disease and need fire the cleanse the area/start from scratch
@@GardeningInCanada "Oh that’s an Elaine Ingram theory." Then there is Charles Dowding who composts everything from his garden and plants the same crops in the same rows year after year. I believe his secret to success is that he interplants/succession plants other crops in those areas once harvested.
Early blight, in conjunction with the mite nourishing extreme heat and drought made tomatos non existent this summer. I have a few growing now that'll do better over the winter as powdery mildew is all that effects them, but the 70-80 degree winters will do them well.
Another option is blight resistant tomatoes:
Mountain Magic: bit.ly/3LN1daq
Damsel: bit.ly/3y2vufJ
Galahad: bit.ly/3E51DHz
Early Girl: bit.ly/3CfgJZu
You look so beautiful in this video!
Or, alternately, we can grow early determinate varieties.
Magic mountain and Early Girl are affected by blight. I know as i grow these varieties.
$4.99 for 18 seeds?!? Da-um!
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
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 😂
That’s is awesome that your got a good harvest. Hopefully fresh organic produce will help your pain. Healthy food is supposed to reduce inflammation.
@@GardeningInCanada I’m trying so hard to find natural ways to help myself feel better due to 4 possibly 5 autoimmune diseases. I’m definitely growing inside greens and herbs in my green stalk this winter. I hope it does well. I have a sunroom ❤️
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!
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
Haha thank you 🙏
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.
Love a journal
Non-lurking plant geek here. Great info and you look particularly great today. Cheers
Haha love that!
Thank you! It was the coldest, rainy summer ever, in Maine!🙏🏻💕
Thank you for linking the references.
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
Oh my goodness this got my tomatos, cucumbers, melons and squash!
That’s unfortunate. Full attack this year for you!
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.
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.
❤️❤️
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
Yea absolutely which ones in particular are you having issues with?
I'm not sure what exactly I was dealing with... I have multiple images that I can forward to you if you have an email I can send them to
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.
Yes! Very good point
Thank you, got blight, did apply treatment but still got it, no worries..from me, like you said, did get tomatoes...
Yea it’s so insidious and takes over regardless
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 😊
That’s pretty lucky!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful info! Gardening in central Alberta & the deer loved all my tomatoes & potato tops but I did get a medium yield in spite of the grazing!
Oh my goodness dang deer! I would cry
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.
yes!
Blight resistant varieties, while expensive, can almost entirely solve this problem. I like Mountain Merit.
we started out cool then extreme heatwave then back to lots of rain and cool off where im at in nova scotia... my Tomato plants were looking like yours then Fiona came throu flattened them all... staked them back up as best as I could but they are a sight for sore eyes now... but overall they produced well and what is left on the vines are ripening ... and hope for better weather next year ;)
15 plants an only had 37 tomatoes fall off the vines during Fiona an my biggest beefsteak held firm an is now a wonderful pumpkin orange color... Friday before Fiona came threw that night it was still green shouldered but the stress really have them turning now
Yea I agree with that!
That’s so interesting!
how about bacterial spot on tomato? how to treat the soil after the season?
Very useful video thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
I have late blight already in NE Ohio June 11. Partially rotated crops in 12x10 hoop house. 4 sections, 2 are tomatoes, 2 are cucumbers. The tomatoes that are growing where tomatoes were last year have blight, those that were planted where cucumbers were do not. Late blight kills blooms, leaves and eventually the whole plant. I guess I should've started fungicide a little earlier. We have tomatoes outside, they're all fine. I'm sure outside will get early blight but that never seems to hurt the tomato yield.
Well I was so excited to get tomato plants. They were from other gardeners and I was suspicious about a purple Cherokee I had purchased due to its lower leaves being black on the tips but being a newbie I ignored it and brought it home to of course infect everything around it ! Well I have to get rid of it which I will do tomorrow along with other plants that seem to have been exposed very disappointing but a learning experience thanks for your video
I use crab meal as a prevenative. Never had an issue.
Wow that's great 👍👍👍👍
I’ve got early blight, it was in the soil and I’ve been using peas instead as an alternative crop for 3 years, I finally put tomatoes back in and within weeks there all infected!
Hi there, I think I got late blight from the garden centre this year. I bought a tomato plant that had dark spots on it and I didn't know at the time what it was. It didn't spread initially until later in the season when we had a week of cool rainy weather. I am going to remove my plants. I have already removed some leafs before I knew what it was and did throw them in the compost pile. Is there any chance the late blight can survive on tomato plant cuttings through the winter in a compost pile? I live in Southern Ontario. Thanks!
Great video!
Could we reuse the soil from the pot where there was a little bit of late blight ? Thank you in advance
Your hair looks great! Thanks for the video.
Thanks! I actually did it 😅
I love your channel thank you
Glad you enjoy it!
When taking off affected leaves is it ok and or effective to burn them?
Thanks for the video! How did your nightowl autos turn out? Hope there is some updates on that!
I will! They are done now since the nights are getting so cool
At 6:59 you mention GDU's? I tried searching for GDU and found nothing. Did I hear that wrong? I wasn't sure what the graph you showed a couple seconds later was supposed to do for us either. Could you give a link or provide more information? Thanks.
Lesions are bad, huh? OK, Bell Peppers, being in the nightshade family, are they also susceptible to blight? I have a couple leaves that are sort of cracked looking with dry edges. Otherwise they look healthy. Should I remove those leaves?
You hair looks great! Hey did you happen to see the article on Google about how Glyphosate is causing seizures in worms at 300 times the lowest delusion? Was apparently just descovered. Now I am wanting to add more weed control to my landscaping business and be a good educator to my clients, I love selective herbicides but I am concerned about soil life, I don't want to write too much here but I am looking for solutions to kill weeds, not grass, and not soil life. Any ideas would be amazing.
No! I need to find that and take a look
what is the best type of sprayer to apply fungicide? I don't prune my tomatoes and they get thick and hard to penetrate with a pump sprayer. I saw a mosquito fogger being used. It applied a thick fog with enough force to reach 20-30 feet. It seemed like a perfect solution. I have 110 tomato plants, 200 cucumber plants and 200 zucchini. I get hammered with blight
Hi Ashley, I remember you previously mentioned in a video that hot composting had never worked for you so you stick with Bokashi. Is it time for an update?
I need to do a composting series! I have been running four or five different types of compost this year.
@@GardeningInCanada Cool! Looking forward to it :)
I use Liquid Copper Fungicide which helps with many common diseases of plants. Blight, mildew, rust etc. maybe try making a Lactic Acid bacteria spray?
Yea! I would. Do you apply it prior to seeing an infection?
@@GardeningInCanada yes . I spray on my mint plants ( rust infection) then cut off the infected dead leaves! It does prevent the disease from spreading and killing further!
Seems like a different in areas of my 4 ways to garden experiment as I'm testing 4 methods Seems less effective then 3th season no tilt has the early problems and we'll drainage doing best all my tomato plants were well prune to much the same way.
Sounds like crap happens I had thought some were breed not to have blight.
Midnight Snack has been the healthier 2 plants in my garden of 26 types
What was the stuff you spread on your compost? Is there a video on your channel that talks about that?
Oh! That’s expired yeast haha I have a reel on it
I had tomato blight this year but I can’t blame anyone’s mother or neighbour. On two separate occasions I accidentally left the sprinkler on all night. Once, I can forgive myself. Twice… I should have to pay extra taxes for being so stupid. Plus the fact that it was a pretty wet summer in Brockville, ON to begin with.
I really need to get that drip irrigation with a timer installed. I have everything I need except time!
I have blight on my Cantelopes and Tomatoes, I am growing them in grow bags so is it best to just discard the whole bag. This is first time ever growing anything and had a lot of success but did get the blight late in the growing season. Also is the the tomatoes and Cantelope still edible? I’m new at this so learning as I go.
Oh yea they aren’t harmful or anything
Hi madam can I used the seeds from late blight to plant. Thank
Im curious if you have ever looked into aloe vera as a fungicide? I’m currently doing an experiment to see how effective it is against PWM and so far it is working on the leaves that I rubbed aloe gel on. Just wanted to know if u had found scientific studies about this?
I haven’t! That is interesting I’ll look into it
Usually get “early” blight in late July/early August in central UK. But manage to harvest at least one truss of red or two trusses of blushing tomatoes btt it appears.
This year I grew over 100 well spaced out determinate paste tomato plants to ensure one good truss per plant for processing.
It was a long very hot, dry summer and despite the occasional blossoms appearing during particularly hot waves of over 104 degrees that failed to pollinate, I’ve suffered having to process at least three years worth of every tomato based product you can think of! 😩😩😩
#Onceinalifetime #Neveragain 😂
It has been a number of years since I have had to cope with blight. So I am a lucky-boy.
I am wondering though, could our issue be that gardeners are using their compost too soon? It may be finished compost but still too "fresh?" I could be "jinx-ing" myself for next year mentioning this but here I go...Since curing/aging my compost these issues seem to be less of a concern. One thing that I don't miss are those Scarlet Lily Beetles. It may not be from my methods, that could just be there are fewer gardeners growing lily plants so there is less for the to munch on.
Oh forsure! Unfinished compost can cause a lot of issues disease, nutrients, weeds you name it
Thanks for the video, Ashley. Does bacterial leaf spot overwinter in the soil? My basil plant had some infected leaves, I removed them and things were fine until it rained and/or I happened to shower the plant. Is it okay to just remove leaves or does the entire plant and soil need to be disposed of?
The basil maybe downy mildew. Google downy mildew on basil and see if it matches.
@@GardeningInCanada will do, thanks.
Could you let us know what your opinion is on preventative asprin and hydrogen peroxide sprays?
Is the soil ok to use after your tomatoes got blight for the following year?
I’m curious at how effective preventive application of fungicide is. If you apply a fungicide as directed, can you ward off late blight (assuming you’re taking other normal precautions) or are you simply delaying the inevitable?
I’ll be using preventative fungicide this year, but I just want to set my expectations accurately.
After years of losing all my tomatoes to diseases despite spraying various fungicides I had a diseased tomato plant tested and learned it was bacterial = Clavibacter MIchiganesesis pv Michiganensis (CMM) or Bacterial Canker.
any suggestions? sprays? resistant varieties?
Can i save seeds from blighted tomatoes? Are they safe to eat ?
Why chill plants are not growing in gulf countries
I’m losing my entire garden to lord and fungus right now. I caught the downy mildew on my zuchinni too ate, now it’s on my pumpkin plants and the black mold on my tomato plants spread and now I have like actual black hairy mold on my whole basil bush and I’m just drowning in fungus!! The wild fruit trees in my yard have had shot hole diseas for years and the leaves fall everywhere and I don’t know how I’m going to recover from this 😭 😫 😩
Is it true in your opinion, that if you have the correct microbes in your soil, the microbes can help fend off plant diseases such as blight?
Oh that’s an Elaine Ingram theory. I’m not confident that’s true. I believe rotation is healthy. Because even forests will get disease and need fire the cleanse the area/start from scratch
@@GardeningInCanada "Oh that’s an Elaine Ingram theory." Then there is Charles Dowding who composts everything from his garden and plants the same crops in the same rows year after year. I believe his secret to success is that he interplants/succession plants other crops in those areas once harvested.
Early blight, in conjunction with the mite nourishing extreme heat and drought made tomatos non existent this summer. I have a few growing now that'll do better over the winter as powdery mildew is all that effects them, but the 70-80 degree winters will do them well.
Oh man that’s the worst. I had that last year, the heat was way to much and did a lot of damage
Deer ate all my tomatoes this year:(
there is no blight in my soul!
Haha love it
Please share your linkedin profile
I see if u chastise YT in comments your vids come back lol
Hahahaha