Tomato Blight - Should I put plants in green wheely bin?
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?) Or should I just cut the plants down, let them dry and then burn them? (which would be a risk for letting the fungus get into the soil??) Thanks in Advance Mark |
Tomato Blight - Should I put plants in green wheely bin?
In article , Mark Radley writes: | 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?) It doesn't matter. Blight spores overwinter only in living material. I compost mine, and have had no problems arising from that. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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..? -- cu Marco |
Tomato Blight - Should I put plants in green wheely bin?
In article , Marco Schwarz writes: | | Do you think about crop rotation..? Rarely worthwhile on a domestic scale, and never worthwhile for diseases like blight. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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