"shazzbat" wrote

"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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For those of you that grow veg but don't take the Kitchen Garden...

They report that a Club Root resistant F1 Cabbage has been developed in
Holland and the seeds will be available through Suttons and Dobies. It's
called "Kilaxy". Whilst they do not claim it is totally immune to
clubroot, they did note some signs of swollen nodules on some plant
roots, but they still produced good headed cabbages.

Details from the Suttons web site...

Cabbage F1 Kilaxy

A top quality late summer/autumn cabbage of the round headed Dutch White
type, with solid compact heads of around 2kg in weight, which both stand
and store well. Excellent thin leaved, dense internal structure. (It is
so resistant that it will produce a fine crop on infected ground where
ordinary varieties fail. This strong resistance has been well proven on
both our own trials site and others across Europe.)

Perfect timing as far as I'm concerned. :-)


Educate me if you will. I haven't seen clubroot, how does it manifest
itself above ground?


The roots are unable to grow properly and therefore can't provide the plant
with the water or nutrients it needs for growth resulting in plants that
show (usually severe) signs of lack of these. You get very stunted plants
that look very sickly and don't grow well at all, a look at the roots will
confirm the diagnosis.

More details at http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0202/clubroot.asp

Strangely some say it can lay dormant in the ground for 5 years and others
as much as 20 years.

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London