also, before I spray again here... I"m going to have to chop chop chop again even though I just chopped 2 days ago its sad. there is barely anything left to chop my poor plants!
Dissolve 1 tablespoon of copper sulfate with 2 tablespoons of lime in 1 gallon of water. Spray your tomato plants 2 or 3 times every week. This will stop it from spreading. Cut off the blight infected parts of your plants.
Shee, I've been fighting blight this year also, first on potatoes, now on tomatoes and peppers. I bought the Daconil liquid spayer mix and sprayed very thouroughly. It took me two evenings to spray 95 plants, and I probably used 5-6 sprayer fulls. I covered the leaves until there was a little of the whitish substance left on them. So far after one time spraying, it seems to have stopped it for the most part. The peppers made a total turnaround after one application. That was a week ago, and we've had rain every day for the last two-three days so I will re-apply the Daconil this weekend. That's the darndest part of it all, last year I couldn't get enough water on the garden, this year it's too much! Sure would be nice to have a normal year every now and then!
You might need to buy a new sprayer, I just used a gallon size plastic cheapie one from Wal-mart. I wasn't sure what I had put in the one I had, so I didn't take a chance.
So, I think I saved the plants, but now I think I will have to fence the garden to keep the chickens from eating the 'maters! Good luck!
I haven't had the chance to finish spraying. rr. the next night it rained. the next night I didnt have help as I was alone, and tonight was birthday celebration food for my DH. I hope to finish spraying tomororw. the tomatoes seem to be doing ok so far, but the potatoes are not doing hot. they're doing worse now. hopefully the sprayer works. I tried soaking the spraying element. I jut bought the thing last year.