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‘Slugpellet Steve’ on our site was a big believer in Jeyes fluid for blight apparently. Came up in conversations last year with another neighbour. By the time he left his plot was practically glowing from the amount of chemicals he was throwing around so I’m not sure it’s something I’d do on a whim :/
Touch wood we’ve escaped unscathed this year..
Looking at San marzano varieties for next year as supposedly hard as nails/blight resistant and great for passata making.
edmundro-
To be fair, Doug is an allotment legend and certainly doesn't use many chemicals at all. He wasn't really suggesting I do it, he just mentioned it as a 'some people do this'. It probably does work, but then you've got jeyes fluid in your soil and a damaged microbiome.
Will have a look at the san marzano. I also like to keep a few tomato plants at home and they ususally avoid blight much more than ones at the allotment.
Tonts
The crimson crush/blush/plum varieties are all extremely blight resistant. If you have suffered with blight before then you can grow these and wont suffer. It's looking like two of my tomato plants are starting to get blight. Fruit getting that slightly off yellow colour when ripening.
Bloke from my allotment reckons you should water the ground with some dilute jeyes fluid if you've had blight there.