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Pea Mildew
I have a white dust on all of my pea's & now my late flowering sweet pea have it.
I read its a lack of nitrogen so gave them a blast of seaweed fertilizers!!! I am worried it will spoil for me next year!!! nb. weirdly its affected my purple top milans too Any advise? Will it get as bad next year? |
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Courgette Rot
Alphatono wrote:
This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil watering evenly in future should fix it. D |
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Courgette Rot
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote: Alphatono wrote: This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil watering evenly in future should fix it. D or you need honey bees. -- - Billy Both the House and Senate budget plan would have cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy. Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans "appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of waste, fraud and abuse." http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/ [W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And itıs not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. Thatıs hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they donıt get away with no taxation. - Ralph Nader http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis |
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Courgette Rot
Alphatono said:
This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. "Rot at the base of the plant" could be your interpretation of the effects of squash vine borers. And squash vine borers could cause the plant to fail to set or abort fruit. Squash vine borers don't occur everywhere squash are grown, though I do remember reading that they had been unintentionally introduced into areas where they are not native. -- Pat in Plymouth MI "Yes, swooping is bad." email valid but not regularly monitored |
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Courgette Rot
"Billy" wrote in message
... In article , "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Alphatono wrote: This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil watering evenly in future should fix it. D or you need honey bees. ???? Would the courgettes have started to grow enough to get a rotted end if the flower hadn't been visited by a bee? |
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Courgette Rot
FarmI wrote:
"Billy" wrote in message ... In article , "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Alphatono wrote: This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil watering evenly in future should fix it. D or you need honey bees. ???? Would the courgettes have started to grow enough to get a rotted end if the flower hadn't been visited by a bee? Apparently they do start to grow while infertile and only continue to grow if fertilised. I am unsure how big they will get as I usually have to shoo away the bees to get near them. D |
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Courgette Rot
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote: FarmI wrote: "Billy" wrote in message ... In article , "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Alphatono wrote: This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil watering evenly in future should fix it. D or you need honey bees. ???? Would the courgettes have started to grow enough to get a rotted end if the flower hadn't been visited by a bee? Apparently they do start to grow while infertile and only continue to grow if fertilised. I am unsure how big they will get as I usually have to shoo away the bees to get near them. D I'll go with the big guy. There are few bees around now, and the squash are petering out quickly. Then there is the mildew, but the aborted squash started before the mildew problems. -- - Billy Both the House and Senate budget plan would have cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy. Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans "appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of waste, fraud and abuse." http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/ [W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And itıs not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. Thatıs hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they donıt get away with no taxation. - Ralph Nader http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis |
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Courgette Rot
In article ,
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Billy" wrote in message ... In article , "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Alphatono wrote: This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil watering evenly in future should fix it. D or you need honey bees. ???? Would the courgettes have started to grow enough to get a rotted end if the flower hadn't been visited by a bee? That's been my observation. With my garden, it usually happens when cucurbits first start flowering. I guess that it takes time for the bees to integrate them new stop into their schedules ;O) Was your trip a vacation or did you have business to take care of? If the former, have you discussed it in any of the groups? I have a bad case of wanderlust, and I'm always curious about what's around the next bend, or over the next rise. -- - Billy Both the House and Senate budget plan would have cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy. Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans "appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of waste, fraud and abuse." http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/ [W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And itıs not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. Thatıs hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they donıt get away with no taxation. - Ralph Nader http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis |
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Courgette Rot
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
FarmI wrote: "Billy" wrote in message In article , "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Alphatono wrote: This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil watering evenly in future should fix it. D or you need honey bees. ???? Would the courgettes have started to grow enough to get a rotted end if the flower hadn't been visited by a bee? Apparently they do start to grow while infertile and only continue to grow if fertilised. I am unsure how big they will get as I usually have to shoo away the bees to get near them. That's interesting. Does the same thing happen with other fruits/veg that is really a fruit? |
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Courgette Rot
"Billy" wrote in message news:Wildbilly-
Was your trip a vacation or did you have business to take care of? If the former, have you discussed it in any of the groups? I have a bad case of wanderlust, and I'm always curious about what's around the next bend, or over the next rise. It was a holiday Billy and just a magic one. No, I haven't discussed it on other lists (other than an extremely brief mention). It wasn't my choice of destination so I had limited expectations but it turned out far better than I ever could have anticipated. I can recommend a trip there, especially Peru where the food was exceptional (all of it even the grub one eats just because you need a belly filler), the people were all delightful and the scenery and landscapes were always interesting or stunning or breathtaking. Macchu Pichu has to be seen to appreciate it as no pic can really do it justice but it's too crowded for my liking. Chile and Bolivia were places we'd love to see more of, and the same for Brazil although we liked the bits we saw (Iguassu is stunning as is BA). Would go back to every place except Rio which has very grubby beaches in comparison to those of Aus and has somewhat limited appeal for a couple of bumkins like us as we're not 'into' shopping or shows or grubby beaches. As a spinner and sometime weaver, I enjoyed that aspect of the western parts of it but would really have liked to have access to a translator who knew something about the subject as the only time I got to talk to a real spinner, I had doubts about what she was supposedly doing and the explanation for why she was doing it - what I was told sounded like a complete load of old rubbish. We were as sick as dogs from the altitude from the time we got to Cusco and stayed that way till we left La Paz but other than that, I was as fit as a Mallee Bull. Himself wouldn't lsiten to my advice and not eat lettuce in road side places and got a gut bug which took him 2 weeks to get over. I was not sympathetic. The trip home was a bitch - 36 hours from hotel door to home. It's a long way to SA from here. It took a couple of weeks to get over waking in the middle of the night and wanting to bounce out of bed. I'd recommend it. Next time we will go to the Galapagos and down into Patagonia. |
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Courgette Rot
FarmI wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message FarmI wrote: "Billy" wrote in message In article , "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Alphatono wrote: This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil watering evenly in future should fix it. D or you need honey bees. ???? Would the courgettes have started to grow enough to get a rotted end if the flower hadn't been visited by a bee? Apparently they do start to grow while infertile and only continue to grow if fertilised. I am unsure how big they will get as I usually have to shoo away the bees to get near them. That's interesting. Does the same thing happen with other fruits/veg that is really a fruit? Some plants produce full fruit without fertilisation, it's called parthenocarpy. For example bananas, some oranges and watermelons. Most fruits don't develop very much at all and fall while tiny and hard if not fertilised. I don't know how many partially develop if not fertilised. D |
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Courgette Rot
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
... FarmI wrote: "David Hare-Scott" wrote in message FarmI wrote: "Billy" wrote in message In article , "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Alphatono wrote: This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil watering evenly in future should fix it. D or you need honey bees. ???? Would the courgettes have started to grow enough to get a rotted end if the flower hadn't been visited by a bee? Apparently they do start to grow while infertile and only continue to grow if fertilised. I am unsure how big they will get as I usually have to shoo away the bees to get near them. That's interesting. Does the same thing happen with other fruits/veg that is really a fruit? Some plants produce full fruit without fertilisation, it's called parthenocarpy. For example bananas, some oranges and watermelons. Most fruits don't develop very much at all and fall while tiny and hard if not fertilised. I don't know how many partially develop if not fertilised. Watermelons do that!!! Most interesting. I'd always assumed that they were like the other members of the melon family and needed to be grown on their own if you were a seed saver. Must plant some of those sun and moon ones now I know that bit of info. |
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Courgette Rot
In article ,
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Billy" wrote in message news:Wildbilly- Was your trip a vacation or did you have business to take care of? If the former, have you discussed it in any of the groups? I have a bad case of wanderlust, and I'm always curious about what's around the next bend, or over the next rise. It was a holiday Billy and just a magic one. No, I haven't discussed it on other lists (other than an extremely brief mention). It wasn't my choice of destination so I had limited expectations but it turned out far better than I ever could have anticipated. I can recommend a trip there, especially Peru where the food was exceptional (all of it even the grub one eats just because you need a belly filler), the people were all delightful and the scenery and landscapes were always interesting or stunning or breathtaking. Macchu Pichu has to be seen to appreciate it as no pic can really do it justice but it's too crowded for my liking. Chile and Bolivia were places we'd love to see more of, and the same for Brazil although we liked the bits we saw (Iguassu is stunning as is BA). Would go back to every place except Rio which has very grubby beaches in comparison to those of Aus and has somewhat limited appeal for a couple of bumkins like us as we're not 'into' shopping or shows or grubby beaches. As a spinner and sometime weaver, I enjoyed that aspect of the western parts of it but would really have liked to have access to a translator who knew something about the subject as the only time I got to talk to a real spinner, I had doubts about what she was supposedly doing and the explanation for why she was doing it - what I was told sounded like a complete load of old rubbish. We were as sick as dogs from the altitude from the time we got to Cusco and stayed that way till we left La Paz but other than that, I was as fit as a Mallee Bull. Himself wouldn't lsiten to my advice and not eat lettuce in road side places and got a gut bug which took him 2 weeks to get over. I was not sympathetic. The trip home was a bitch - 36 hours from hotel door to home. It's a long way to SA from here. It took a couple of weeks to get over waking in the middle of the night and wanting to bounce out of bed. I'd recommend it. Next time we will go to the Galapagos and down into Patagonia. Thanks for the thumb-nail. I'm green with envy. -- - Billy Both the House and Senate budget plan would have cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy. Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans "appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of waste, fraud and abuse." http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/ [W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And itıs not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. Thatıs hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they donıt get away with no taxation. - Ralph Nader http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis |
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Courgette Rot
FarmI wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message ... FarmI wrote: "David Hare-Scott" wrote in message FarmI wrote: "Billy" wrote in message In article , "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Alphatono wrote: This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil watering evenly in future should fix it. D or you need honey bees. ???? Would the courgettes have started to grow enough to get a rotted end if the flower hadn't been visited by a bee? Apparently they do start to grow while infertile and only continue to grow if fertilised. I am unsure how big they will get as I usually have to shoo away the bees to get near them. That's interesting. Does the same thing happen with other fruits/veg that is really a fruit? Some plants produce full fruit without fertilisation, it's called parthenocarpy. For example bananas, some oranges and watermelons. Most fruits don't develop very much at all and fall while tiny and hard if not fertilised. I don't know how many partially develop if not fertilised. Watermelons do that!!! Most interesting. I'd always assumed that they were like the other members of the melon family and needed to be grown on their own if you were a seed saver. Must plant some of those sun and moon ones now I know that bit of info. I take it you don't want your moon and stars to produce hybrid seed. Maybe I am thick today but I don't understand how this aim relates to parthenocarpy. D |
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Courgette Rot
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message u... "David Hare-Scott" wrote in message ... FarmI wrote: "David Hare-Scott" wrote in message FarmI wrote: "Billy" wrote in message In article , "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Alphatono wrote: This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants & then on my squash. Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was all find previous years. Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil watering evenly in future should fix it. D or you need honey bees. ???? Would the courgettes have started to grow enough to get a rotted end if the flower hadn't been visited by a bee? Apparently they do start to grow while infertile and only continue to grow if fertilised. I am unsure how big they will get as I usually have to shoo away the bees to get near them. That's interesting. Does the same thing happen with other fruits/veg that is really a fruit? Some plants produce full fruit without fertilisation, it's called parthenocarpy. For example bananas, some oranges and watermelons. Most fruits don't develop very much at all and fall while tiny and hard if not fertilised. I don't know how many partially develop if not fertilised. Watermelons do that!!! Most interesting. I'd always assumed that they were like the other members of the melon family and needed to be grown on their own if you were a seed saver. Must plant some of those sun and moon ones now I know that bit of info. I read that as some oranges and "some" watermelons. I could of course be wrong, I am a male. Mike |
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