Tomato Blight - help!

[jamesrob1]

All the tomato plants in my greenhouse got the blight this year so I have destroyed the fruit and the plants.
What worries me is what to do about the soil.
This is the first year for the greenhouse and the plants were growing inside but planted into the ground in a mixture of the existing soil and some compost.
Is the soil now contaminated and if so is there anything I can do? Also, do the canes need to be disinfected?
Any ideas would be most helpful. Thanks.

[Paul Narramore]

Tomato Blight was nationwide this year; I lost all of mine too and for the second year on the trot, although they were planted outside. I'd suggest, but Digger will almost certainly come up with the most reliable advice, is that as this is an airborne disease, the soil shouldn't be affected. Washing the canes in a Jeyes Fluid solution wouldn't do any harm though. To get Tomato Blight indoors is a bit unusual, or so I understand, and really only affects the outside-grown toms.

[Neil Bromhall]

Tomato blight is a fungus. It spreads by producing millions of spores.
They fall to the ground and attach to surfaces, so cleaning anything that the tomato might grow up will be good, though a new pole might be safer.
I grow my tomatoes in grow bags and had a good crop this year in my green house, yet the all the ones in my allotment got tomato blight.

[sue1002]

From what I have heard and read, tomato blight inside the greenhouse is quite rare, to cut down on the risk of it happening again remember to water the soil only and not the foliage. By placing the plants so they don't touch the sides of the greenhouse would also help so they don't get affected by condensation from the glass. Our greenhouse does not have soil inside, I grow tomatoes in shrub tubs which stand in a tray of gravel which can easily be washed ready for use the next year.