Re: Tomato plants rotting?

Andy wrote:
"Alan Holmes" <alan.holmes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:cf__e.3228$0w.1220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Is this normal?

I've never noticed it happen in the past.


If you mean individual side-stems are going off randomly
and getting covered with a dusty mould, then I think it's
normal. I just pick the mouldy stems off. They've only got
a few weeks to go anyway.

Andy.



Are the unripe tomatoes going brown and hard ? If the powdery dust is blight spore then you'll only be spreading the disease by making it airborne.

<http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0803/tomato_blight.asp>
<http://www.khlga.freeserve.co.uk/potato%20Blight.html>

Richard.
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