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Old 29-10-2005, 10:03 PM
Bob Hobden
 
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Default Club Root overcome


"Robert" wrote
: More details at http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0202/clubroot.asp
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: Strangely some say it can lay dormant in the ground for 5 years and
others
: as much as 20 years.
:
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I don't think it lays dormant, it just doesn't manifest itself unless it
has
brassicas to infect ...... or is that the sam e thing lol

It would only manifest itself if you grow brassicas, true, but it does lay
dormant in the soil awaiting a chance to infect the roots of a brassica and
so manifest itself.
Does that make sense?

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London