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Potato blight - degree of urgency?
Emery Davis wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:50:22 +0200 "David \(Normandy\)" wrote: It seems all my potato crop has succumbed to blight as have the tomatoes. Apparently everyone in the area has had the same problem. Someone advised pulling / cutting off all the tops and lifting the potatoes pronto. Most of the tops have either lost their leaves or gone mushy, some mushy right down to ground level. How urgent is this? I ask because I've just spent a couple of hours lifting one row of potatoes (which are nice and clean) but my back has had enough. There are another 20 rows for me to lift yet so it is likely to take a number of days or even weeks to lift them all. Should I pull the tops off the other rows despite the fact I won't be able to lift them for a while? The tops are handy to see where the rows are as all the rain has flattened the mounds, and also if I start trampling all over the rows it will make lifting harder. Suggestions? Anyone have experience with blight? Is there a "need for speed"? Just discussed this yesterday with a local gardener. (Don't do taters myself.) She's just south of Argentan. She did a large crop this year, all blighted. She has sprayed with Bordeaux mix (immediately rained on, of course) to try and see what can be saved -- tomatoes all mouldy too -- and will be pulling off tops asap. Our toms are pretty borderline, too. Bloody miserable weather. I notice a lot of maples putting on fall colours, just because it's so cold. Dogwoods, too. -E Hm, so no one has told the maples about global warming then! |
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Potato blight - degree of urgency?
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:42:33 +0100
Broadback wrote: Hm, so no one has told the maples about global warming then! They know about it! Boiling spring, cold summer... Last year May was so hot there was a little leaf drop. Of course that 6 inches of snow we had end March didn't help either. Not to mention not a drop in April, until the end of month hail storm -- marble sized -- stripped the leaves off of many. Not to mention knocking out the cherries... -E -- Emery Davis You can reply to ecom by removing the well known companies Questions about wine? Visit http://winefaq.hostexcellence.com |
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