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'The world's most damaging potato disease has been discovered in Britain for the first time.
Ring rot has been described as the potato equivalent of foot-and-mouth, and government experts are meeting to discuss how to contain it.
Potato growers have pledged to contain and eradicate the outbreak, which was discovered at a farm in mid Wales.
It is thought the disease, which could seriously affect yields, was brought into the UK on infected Dutch seed. '
Okay, I know potatoes are not tomatoes. But they are Solanacaea - same family.
Does anyone have any experience of Ring Rot? Can it affect tomatoes? What remedies are there?
As a compulsive tomato grower, I'm worried!
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