A poor year for tomatoes...

[dandysmom]

:( Started out fine, but the squirrel got some of the early ones; now they seem to have some sort of blight! The foliage is yellowing, and the fruits are unusually small. I don't grow the beefsteaks, prefer the smaller ones, but this is sort of ridiculous...the almost ripe one in the pic looks nice, but it's only about the size of a large plum....I've had better years.....:roll:
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[Donna]

Thats not good DM!!!! You will have to resort to the supermarket ones... but I bet they dont taste as nice as home grown ones (if you manage to actually grow any with this daft weather).

[Mags]

I wish I had taken a photo of mine before I pulled them out this afternoon now...:?
The stems on mine were going brown also.

I bet the price of tommies will shoot up in the shops now!:(

[Moli]

Thats a shame, after all your hard work too....

[dandysmom]

Thats not good DM!!!! You will have to resort to the supermarket ones... but I bet they dont taste as nice as home grown ones (if you manage to actually grow any with this daft weather).
Fortunately our organic food store, Whole Foods, gets locally grown ones that are quite good...not as nice as fresh-picked from the vine, but tolerable. Mine look really awful this year, don't they? When you have a tiny City yard and only three tomato plants, you really look forward to them...sigh .....

[dandysmom]

]I wish I had taken a photo of mine [/B]before I pulled them out this afternoon now...:?
The stems on mine were going brown also.

I bet the price of tommies will shoot up in the shops now!:(
I wish you had too, Mags, misery loves company .... :-D

[Mags]

I wish you had too, Mags, misery loves company .... :-D
:-D
Maybe it's just as well I didn't Eileen, I don't particularly want to have a reminder of them! :roll::lol:

[dandysmom]

Ah well, as the saying goes, "Wait till next year".....

[dinahsmum]

That's tomato blight DM. :(
Do you think yours are stressed and susceptible from being too hot? I was always of the impression that it was a wet weather disease.
Anyway - you may (just may) be able to save something if you cut back to good growth. Most of the leaves will have to go and you will have to use plenty of tomato food fertiliser to make up for this.
This is the way I've just about kept my remaining polytunnel tomatoes going. Well, limping really.
If the fruits get a brown blush, that's it, it's blighted - remove.
BTW - all the affected material should be burned if possible, if not take well off site. Do not compost, the spores stay in the soil and will affect next years crop. If you are growing in soil (as opposed to pots or growbags) do not grow tomatoes or potatoes there next year.
I believe you can get a chemical to treat it - Dithane or similar, I think - but there's not much point in growing naturally and then pouring chemicals on.

Ho hum.

I've posted a tomato joke, for all us frustrated gardeners, in the joke section :)

[Sweet]

I have never grown toms, sending you both ((((((hugs)))))) x

[mable1718]

I have never grown toms so im sending you bout (((((hugs))))

[dandysmom]

Thanks, DM! I always thought they loved the hot weather, but this year was not only warmer than usual but exceptionally dry, so had to water with City water, which has chlorine and other stuff in it...?? They don't set fruit very well when it's in the 90sF which it was. They're in containers; will dump the soil and start anew next season; foliage will def not go in the compost heap! Off tp look at the joke now....