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warning blight arrives!
Just checked my tomatoes and potatoes tonight and since Sunday night I
have blight on both! Charlottes seem to have escaped but definitely leaves show sign son other potatoes. Tomatoes have black marks on stems and also on some leaves. As it's early what the best move forward apart from burning everything? Don't have indoor tomatoes but might have to start next year at this rate..... Not affecting crops in Great Missenden or Prestwood or the Lee (about 4 miles away) just Amersham and poss. Chesham at the moment. Anyone else suffering? -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Janet Tweedy wrote:
Just checked my tomatoes and potatoes tonight and since Sunday night I have blight on both! Charlottes seem to have escaped but definitely leaves show sign son other potatoes. Yes, it seems the wet weather is causing it, here in Leics., 20% of farmers crops are said to be damaged: http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.u...eId=132935&com mand=displayContent&sourceNode=132702&contentPK=17 764647&folderPk=77465& pNodeId=132393 Alan. -- To reply by e-mail, change the ' + ' to 'plus'. |
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"Zhang DaWei" wrote in message -uwief... On Wednesday 11 Jul 2007 07:14, A.Lee (1i12rwy.au11vgs8p5v0N%alan@darkroom +.com) wrote: Yes, it seems the wet weather is causing it, here in Leics., 20% of farmers crops are said to be damaged: http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.u...eId=132935&com mand=displayContent&sourceNode=132702&contentPK=17 764647&folderPk=77465& pNodeId=132393 Here, some potatoes we have growing in the front garden to break up and make some compacted soil easier to work later had the signs of it, and so we immediately dug them all up. The potatoes and outdoors tomatoes on our allottment, about half a mile away, are free, as are a few outdoor tomatoes in our back garden. -- Zhang DaWei: United Kingdom Use the Reply-to field. Remove the "feiwu-" at the front of the email address. Address guaranteed for 2 weeks after date of posted message. All our potato and tomato plants here died a few weeks ago. Lots of farmers here have lost their crops too. I can see there being a potato shortage this Winter. David. |
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On 11 Jul, 09:45, "David \(Normandy\)"
wrote: All our potato and tomato plants here died a few weeks ago. Lots of farmers here have lost their crops too. I can see there being a potato shortage this Winter. I've lost all the jerusalem artichocks a couple of weeks ago - all pulverised to a mush, a banquet to the slugs. Toms are slow slow slow. Spuds look ok, touch wood, but broad beans are not moving much, pods are fat but beans are small, compared to last years. Mildew settling under bushes and redcurrants have the blister aphid problem. That I'm not sure what to do organically. The problem is that I've got wild edges surrounding my lotty and I've got so many places for these aphids to settle there the summer and re-infect the currants next year. Crap year really ... ( |
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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. Tom |
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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. Tom 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. |
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In article , 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. |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... .... | 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. Oh, that's interesting. My Dad would never put any part of potato in compost because of the potential problem of blight, I once asked about it here and was told that it would be OK unless blight had affected the plant. Thanks, Nick Mary |
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In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | | 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. | | Oh, that's interesting. My Dad would never put any part of potato in compost | because of the potential problem of blight, I once asked about it here and | was told that it would be OK unless blight had affected the plant. There apparently is a form of Phytopthora infestans that produces durable spores, but it is not established / a problem in the UK. The forms that cause trouble here overwinter in forgotten tubers, other Solanaceae etc. So you can compost even blighted material, but must remove all wildings and watch out for things like the various nightshades. One paper expressed a concern that the two forms might cross, and make a very infectious form with durable spores, but I don't think it has happened. Also, I believe that the spores need to get on the leaves to infect a plant, so compost isn't a likely source. However, that is all from my reading - though I am pretty sure that I have selected out the more reliable sources. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article , Nick Maclaren
writes No. Blight is carried only in living tissue. Why is the new growth at the top apparently unaffected when the lower branches and stems are riddled Nick? Does it come upwards from the soil then? -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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In article , Janet Tweedy writes: | | No. Blight is carried only in living tissue. | | Why is the new growth at the top apparently unaffected when the lower | branches and stems are riddled Nick? Does it come upwards from the soil | then? I don't know, but some pathogens seem to infect the growing shoots and others don't. Plants have an immune system of sorts, though it is very poorly understood, and can sometimes outgrow diseases. At a wild guess, it is because the new growth is faster than the blight, which takes hold as soon as the rapid growth stops. Until the plant is weakened enough that new growth isn't rapid, when it dies. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Sacha wrote:
Sorry, but whatever you're growing, you're not growing Jerseys. Unless of course, you have a herd of cows on your allotment! ;-) What I'm growing is International Kidney, which is the same potato that is sold as Jersey Royals. As I'm not in Jersey, they are not technically Jersey potatoes but they are just as good grown in Worcestershire. Tom |
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On 11/7/07 18:44, in article , "Tom"
wrote: Sacha wrote: Sorry, but whatever you're growing, you're not growing Jerseys. Unless of course, you have a herd of cows on your allotment! ;-) What I'm growing is International Kidney, which is the same potato that is sold as Jersey Royals. As I'm not in Jersey, they are not technically Jersey potatoes but they are just as good grown in Worcestershire. Tom I'm sure they are - it's a delicious potato, though you'll find it hard to get the traditional vraic for composting in Worcestershire. My parents sent me to school there and I couldn't have missed the sea more.....! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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