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that the last few fruits reach the table. Unfortunately, this year my outdoor tomatoes have succumbed to blight.There is something vaguely comforting about this time of year – it’s as if we’re ‘all in it together’. We can enjoy some bright warm days but we

, the process is complete.AdamAvoid sickly plants, such as brassicas, if they have clubroot, and blight-ridden potato and tomato plants.Autumn is a good time to either dig your compost into the soil, or spread it on the surface, allowing winter frosts to break

that as back up. Remember what April was like?I've been madly busy hoiking out all the early potatoes, which definitely have more than a touch of blight, which as Pippa has spotted is already rife this year. Once it's on someone else's plot, there's no stopping

-term possibilities of making a fortune in silk. So much so that at one point old trees were selling for the equivalent of £75 each. The market eventually collapsed and most of the trees died from blight and extreme cold.The reality is that silkworms need too much

us to another problem. There are certain things that don't agree with either compost heaps or shredders. Diseased plant material shouldn't be composted, as the process might not kill the spores of, for example, potato blight or rust. Rose clippings

My experience of growing tomatoes has been relatively trouble-free. My outdoor plants often get blight towards the end of the season, but even then it doesn't seem to affect the crop too much. Once my plants refused to grow after I transplanted them

a hot bath and a glass of something restorative.May the caterpillars discover that synchronized swimming is infinitely preferable to cabbage munching.May your tomatoes be strangers to blight.May you always have just the right number of pots to hand

's Delight' attracted the highest number of votes.I have a few 'Losetto' seedlings on the go, which my partner sowed a couple of weeks ago. It's a relatively new bush type that promises sweet, juicy flavour and good resistance to blight (we'll see). I

potatoes can be harvested in July, before the hot, humid weather increases the threat of potato blight. Wait for the flowers to die down and poke around the base of the haulms, then dig out the golf-ball-sized tubers with a blunt-ended fork.Early potatoes