We are not vegetable gardeners, flowers and shrubs occupy our small patch. Attempts at vegetables were abandoned years ago after we got fed up with skeleton sprouts and catapillar bored cabbages etc. (we dont used insecticides or slug pellets).
We do however grow runners and tomato plants in tubs using grow bags. Last year for the first time we had blight knock out the toms. This year we tried a different position in the garden, fresh tub which was thoroughly washed and new compost. The 3 plants we had were doing fine with a superb crop coming on, then a few days ago disaster, brown spots appeared and with in a day or two the fruit was a rotting mass.
The only thing we have done differently from previous years is use chicken manure pellets and we wonder if the spores are being introduced with this.
We do however grow runners and tomato plants in tubs using grow bags. Last year for the first time we had blight knock out the toms. This year we tried a different position in the garden, fresh tub which was thoroughly washed and new compost. The 3 plants we had were doing fine with a superb crop coming on, then a few days ago disaster, brown spots appeared and with in a day or two the fruit was a rotting mass.
The only thing we have done differently from previous years is use chicken manure pellets and we wonder if the spores are being introduced with this.