tomato plants

[Langton]

I have Tomato blight, first time ever. I have salvaged the fruit that is not damaged. Are they safe to eat?

[WendyS]

I think you will have to eat them/use them incredibly quickly, probably within the next 24 hours. I picked a couple of almost ripe tomatoes from a lightly blighted plant a couple of days ago and left them on my kitchen window sill to ripen. This morning they both had big blight blotches on them. If they're perfectly OK at the moment and are ripe, I think the best way of dealing with them is to wash the skins thoroughly and then immediately chop & cook them down in in frying pan, possibly with some onion and garlic, and freeze them to use as a sauce for pasta, or putting in soups, etc. I have previously used ripe tomatoes from a blighted tomato area successfully in this way, but time is definitely of the essence.