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Broadback writes:
| Tom wrote:
| Janet Tweedy wrote:
| Anyone else suffering?
|
| Everyone on my allotments (Worcester) have blight to some degree. My Mimis
| had it bad, but the spuds themselves were still ok. My Jerseys have a little
| bit of damage but the girl next to me has had all her Pink Fir Apple knocked
| flat with it.
|
| Too warm and wet is the general concensus.

My first earliers (the only ones I was growing, because of spraing) were
wiped out by mid-June, from blight that I believe arrived in May. I was
not prepared :-(

| A little off topic, but if these tops are placed in the council's green
| bins, then sold off later when composted will that not cause problems?
| Personally I would not buy compost from councils for this reason, also
| imagine all the chemicals that will be present.

No. Blight is carried only in living tissue.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.