Reply To: Bordeaux Mixture

[Di]

Thank you for your response, Charles. One of the advantages of growing tomatoes here is that blight can be held at bay by spraying with BM. I know it’s not available in the UK much to the chagrin of many gardeners. I do my best to follow your methodology in all respects, at least to the extent of my knowledge, and practice no dig, composting, mulching, allowing the pests to balance themselves out without chemical intervention etc but the thought of all my tomatoes being at risk from blight isn’t something i could do comfortably.

Perhaps i should err on the side of caution and not compost tomato plants.