Blight Part 3

This is yet another blight post. There's something about blight - it might be that awful, apocalyptic name - that gets under your skin, and has you telling everyone about how it's getting to your garden produce. Maybe it's watching the fruit, that you've seen grow on your plants, wither and drop off that really gets to you. But anyway, hopefully this post is about more than doom and gloom.

Because we managed to get a nice big load of ripe tomatoes from our blighted greenhouse plants, as you can see from this pic:



We've not quite decided what we'll do with them yet. We had some with lunch, along with a delicious home made sourdough loaf and some fabulous Pecorino Dolce from the Chester cheese shop courtesy of Northern Harvest. And they were very good indeed. The rest I think should be turned into a tomato sauce for the freezer. Either some simple arrabiata sauce, or roasted in the oven with garlic, olive oil & rosemary and then blended and frozen. Decisions, decisions.

We've also decided to have a go at saving some of the very green fruit. Today I cut back all the most obviously blighted stems and foliage on the plants with the green plum tomatoes:



It's probably going to end up as more playing for time than anything else, but hopefully given the lovely sunny forecast for the weekend and the effects of the dithane spraying, we should get some ripe tomatoes before the blight spreads. The forecast isn't great for the cricket, obviously, but it should hopefully do the garden some good.