<a href="http://bucktowngarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_8051.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-923" alt="IMG_8051" src="http://bucktowngarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_8051-199x300.jpeg" width="199" height="300" /></a>Late blight has hit the Celebrities and Big Boys.  Not sure why this happened.  One theory is lack of nutrients.  I have been lax fertilizing as of late and I did not add compost to the mix this year of any slow release ferts.  Another theory is blame it on the sunflowers again.  They may be a vector and using them as buffer plants may have brought this on.  The two Branywines are unaffected and very healthy.  All tomato plants are producing a lot of tomatoes.  I probably should be measuring the harvest with a scale.  Maybe next year.  Despite the blight I would consider this year's tomato crop to be a success in that it produced a decent amount of nice round tomatoes without BER or cracking or other weirdness.  I'm probably around 60-70 harvested so far.  A second wave harvest is doubtful.  The Brandywines have a shot at a second wave but I don't see any new flowers on them either even though the plants themselves look good.  A couple Celebrities look kind of stunted.  In past years the Celebrities were the hardy ones -- not this year.  Maybe Gethsemane in Rogers Park sold me bad tomato seedlings.  I have already decided not to use them next year because of their poor quality of their overall selection.  This seals the deal for me.