I have a mixture of tomatoes, and try to remember which ones to pinch out the side shoots from. I have read that you can get new plants from the pinched out side shoots. I never have room for more at that stage of their growth. Has anyone tried this?

Blight

Last year I had to harvest all my tomatoes early because of it. Has anyone else tried Green Pizza Sauce? It works. I found an excellent Green Tomato chutney or pickle or something recipe in the Mennonite Community Cookbook. I think it was called an old French recipe. I cut the tomatoes really small (food processor) so it is a relish. Apart from quantities (recipes need to be scaled down for my garden) it is an excellent source of recipes for using up everything. I use my mother's copy.

I use Bordeaux Mixture for blight when I see the first signs. It works on tomatoes, not potatoes. It used to be approved for organic growing, I can't remember if it still is. Making sure the leaves don't touch the ground makes it harder for the spores to be splashed onto the plants. Stripping all the lower leaves off to give a good flow of air through the plants helps, and if blight does strike taking out as many leaves as possible. I did get a few riper tomatoes by doing that before I had to rip out the lot.

As I said, blight . The current weather is perfect for it.