I can't imagine that you escaped Late Blight here in CT.

Well, I did a search in the wee hours and the Early Girls definitely had the anthracnose rot, not blight (sunken black spots not a big spreading brown area). From what I remember of the leaves on both EG and Sweet 100s in early summer, it was yellow and brown spots progressing to wilting, I just pulled off the affected leaves/stems and threw them in isolated area, and tried to keep them thinned out to get air and sun in, didn't have the leaves spotting later in the season, and wilting just seemed to be more related to sun (once it finally came out in July) and heat.

DH put the plants in the burn barrel, I told him not to burn them just in case - put them in trash bags and let them bury them in landfill when they pick up trash tomorrow. But is my compost OK with those infected fruits in it?

I have so far escaped late blight. I did spray but stopped over 3 weeks ago. I think UCONN IPM was right. Few or no unsprayed home gardens survived. I think very few would be more accurate than none. I am still picking ripening fruit from Early Girl, Kelloggs Breakfast and Brandywine. Cherokee Purple and Mortgage Lifter have set new fruit but they are only 1-2" big and I doubt will have enough time to make it to the ripening stage unless we have a very late first frost.

Sue

sue...im nearby in long island, and approx 20 of 30 got wiped out, and the of the remaining, half were F1s and did great, and the others are just now setting fruits (carbon, ernies plump)

this is my first year growing. i didn't spray them with anything. should i ? and with what ? i vaguely heard something about a dust, too. but i didn't put anything and want to avoid this wipe out completely, next year. thanks.