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20-08-2011, 01:35 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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That's not a problem in this case, cos it's a growbag. Just have to
remember not to throw it on the ground, and not to grow potatoes in that one
over winter!
Don't worry about it - as I said, in the UK, blight overwinters only
in living plant material.
But if I throw it onto the ground, surely it will then overwinter in any
leftover bits of plant, such as tomato seeds that may grow, or existing
potato plants that tend to hang around in the flower beds.
In fact ... surely if it's a fungal disease, it will happily hang around in
dead bits of leaf, etc, and will resurface from that? I'm not sure i follow
why it wouldn't.
Bordeaux mixture may not be 'organic', but is just copper, which
is a required nutrient anyway. Unless you go absolutely bananas
with it, there won't be enough accumulation to make any difference.
Is it available to buy? Nick was under the impression it was one of the
limited or removed availability products. (My Nick, not you :-)
More effective treatments that used to be used include benomyl,
and that should be kept a long way from all women between 6 and 60.
Blimey, that's a bit ... kind of specific, but also non-specific, if that
makes sense! What does it do? Some kind of hormonal imbalance mutatey
thing?
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