Food Tips & Info > Food Safety > VegatablesAugust 17, 2009

Eating Tomatoes From Plant With Blight

My tomato plants have blight. If they live until harvest, are the tomatoes safe to eat?

Hardiness Zone: 5a

By Cathy P. from MI

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08/24/2009

From what I've read plants with the blight should be destroyed immediately. This is to keep from spreading it to your own soil and other gardens.

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08/24/2009

How do you know they have blight? Are the tomatoes turning brown? I have eaten several off my plant but don't know if they have blight or not. Has not bothered me yet.

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08/17/2009

No, do not eat tomatoes that have a bacteria on them. You can pick up a infection called pseudomonas. It can be picked up by anywhere in the outside garden veggies and plants and stagnant water.

Just getting over this mess, almost a month on anti-bodies, thought I was going to croak! Go on line and look up this "pseudomonas" good luck.

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