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Old 31-07-2007, 04:38 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Marco Schwarz Marco Schwarz is offline
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Default Tomato Blight - Should I put plants in green wheely bin?

Hi..

I wonder if it will cause anyone any problems if tomato
plants with blight are put into the green wheely bin? (The
council take this stuff away to make compost - is the
compost sterilised somehow?)


Well public green waste will rot under favourable
conditions..

Or should I just cut the plants down, let them dry and
then burn them?


Hm.., this is exactly what we're used to do..!

(which would be a risk for letting the fungus get into
the soil??)


Hard to say but it is said it were already omnipresent in
many regions. We lived for a long while in a main area of
potato growing but we had never probs with the tomatoes in
pots that stood close to an external wall in south-west
direction under the eaves of the house..

Do you think about crop rotation..?

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Marco