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I watched Friday's programme, showing tomato blight, and inviting further comments from viewers on blight. I had potato blight earlier in the year, and cut down all of the foliage, but some of the foliage ended up on the compost heap by mistake

I have 2 columnular Japanese holly in pots by my front door and I keep getting die back. It looks very similar to box blight but I thought that could only affect box. I have treated for vine weavil and it doesn't seem to have helped but very

My cherry blossom has brown rot blight but can't find treatment and wondered if it would affect my other trees such as apple plum etc. Do I need to chop the cherry tree down or can I salvage it, the brown rot started last year. It thought

Aaargh! Blight has struck my spuds! And I bet it's appearing in gardens everywhere too.I'd been rather proud of the fact that, despite it having hit a friend's plot the other side of the village a week ago, my potatoes (including the varieties I

This year has been a good year for tomatoes, but also a good year for blight. Blight, Phytophthora infestans, is a fungal infection, spread by spores in water droplets. Affected tomatoes develop brown, sunken patches, which spread to the stems

Here we are in early July and I have a horrible feeling that potato blight is just around the corner. The weather has been perfect for this horrible fungal infection to wreak havoc on everyone's home-grown spuds. By the look of the weather right now

Potato blight, Phytophthora infestans, determines the quality and quantity of our potato harvest. We grow our own spuds every year, but harvest them in varying quantities, depending on whether or not they've been affected.The fungal infection

i have used potato bags to sow my seed potatoes for 4years now and never till this year had problems with blight.what i want to know is is it safe to use the same bags\containers for next years crop or advisable to clean them out.

The bottoms of my potato hulms have leaves with black patches ansome of gone yellow, the tops of the plants are still in flower and look pretty healthy is this blight and should I cut the hulms off? I don't grow potatoes anymore because

Hello. First year of my greenhouse and my tomatoes have blight. It's on quite a few stems and I don't want to spray. Is it best to cut my losses and bin all the tomato plants (I've read infected material shouldn't be composed)? Can anyone