Yeah, chickens are on the list. so is a goat or two for milk.
I know ground watering is better but we’re not set up for that yet. A revolving sprinkler type is all I have so far. But I think the paper/mulch thing will help with the tomato blight!
Plain old clorox will help the blight too.
Between clorox and the mulch I don’t have a problem with foliar diseases much anymore.
5oz of clorox concentrate (plain, not scented etc) plus one gallon (I save an old milk jug for this) mixed in a pump sprayer. Wait till the sun has gone down (If the sun hits it while the plants are still damp from the bleach spray it will burn them up) and then drench every part of the plant you can. Especially under the leaves and the new growth.
Stand UPwind and don’t breathe any in. I wear one of those masks you get at walmart when I do this. Also, wear old clothes.
Be sure to thoroughly rinse your sprayer including spraying out clean water for a bit. The bleach solution, if left sitting, will eat the little rubberized parts.
I follow up the next morning with a gentle feeding (1/2 strength of the urbanfarms texas tomato food is what I currently use).
If the vines are still green when you start they’ll be fine. Although they’ll look like hammered heck for a couple weeks. Eventually they’ll put out a little branch at the junction of each of the infected big leaves. They will then take over your garden.
This doesn’t do anything for soil borne diseases (nematodes, verticillium, fusarium, etc) but it will stop most foliar ones.
I use this technique to stop blackspot on my roses. I just feed them with miracle grow for roses afterwards.
I recommend joining ‘tomatoville’. Lots of people there who have all sorts of clever tricks. Tomatoville is where I learned of the bleach treatment. IIRC some of them use this to control powdery and downy mildew on cucumbers and squash plants too.