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I am afraid that fleece will not help protect against blight as it does not keep moisture off leaves, in fact it may make blight worse with some extra warmth. It looks unlikely this year that outdoor tomatoes will escape blight, with so much moisture around and temperatures now just high enough (above 10C all the time). The only preventative measure is to keep all leaves dry so you need a roof structure at your allotment: there is simply no easy way.
I’m just about to get a new shower cabinet, I think I’ll keep the old screen!! Good idea
It is almost a waste of time putting the spare greenhouse tomatoes on the uncovered veg patch. So what do I do each year-waste my time!
Four years ago I got lucky and had a bumper crop(Brenda is a dab hand at preparing and freezing them for winter sauces etc). Most years you start to get excited and the weather turns wet and in comes the blight!
My strategy if I can call it that, is to let any outdoor tomatoes go mad, the glasshouse varieties grown outside, branch in all directions. I am aiming for as many early trusses as possible. If the weather turns seriously wet (I anxiously watch how wet it is) I pick as many as possible, most are green but will ripen on an indoor dry surface and they go to the freezer. Meanwhile we eat the lovely Sweet Million and Shirley from the greenhouse! I train those in the regular way.
This year I only had three spare plants. Here in York we have gone really dry. Just my luck this might be another good year!
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