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Container Tomato Blight in Wet Humid Summer: Salvage What You Can

Blight in container = discard soil, sterilize pot (5% bleach). Pick green fruit, ripen in newspaper-lined box. Don’t reuse soil for nightshades. Future: grow under plastic cover, water mornings, avoid leaf wetness.

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