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How do I fight blight in toms?
Q My old greenhouse has had to come down and won’t be replaced until next year. We’ve always had problems with tomato blight on outdoor toms. How do we grow a successful crop?
Enid Birchall, King’s Lynn, Norfolk
Tomato blight, potato blight and late blight are all names. Tomatoes grown outdoors are particularly prone. If summer weather turns cloudy, humid and wet, spores carried on the wind germinate and cause wet-looking brown patches on leaves, eventually withering them. Fruits turn brown and rot, usually just when they look promising.
