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Blighted potatoes
Well, that's the maincrop (British Queen) stuffed! At least the second
earlies (Picasso) managed to get to a good size and quantity before it hit. I've cut down the halms - what a smell!! Kase South Manchester -- |
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Blighted potatoes
Kase wrote:
Well, that's the maincrop (British Queen) stuffed! At least the second earlies (Picasso) managed to get to a good size and quantity before it hit. I've cut down the halms - what a smell!! Kase South Manchester Subscribe to Blight Watch, then when you get the warning spray with your preferred treatment. Worked for me, up to now, this year. |
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Well, that's the maincrop (British Queen) stuffed! At least the second earlies (Picasso) managed to get to a good size and quantity before it hit. I've cut down the halms - what a smell!! Kase South Manchester Bad luck,Kase.It's this terrible weather I believe. You going to drop this crop in future or use chemicals? Sam |
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"sam" wrote in message ... Kase wrote: Well, that's the maincrop (British Queen) stuffed! At least the second earlies (Picasso) managed to get to a good size and quantity before it hit. I've cut down the halms - what a smell!! Kase South Manchester Bad luck,Kase.It's this terrible weather I believe. You going to drop this crop in future or use chemicals? Sam British Queen is dropped. The Picasso were dying back anyway so I don't think that it got them - the tubers are still perfect. Now I need to find an alternative main crop or another second early that I can leave in the ground when they have finished flowering - problem is that I have heavy clay soil so I'm plagued with slugs (I used to love King Edwards but at this house - no chance!) I just wish that I had written down what I planted last year, but because I was having a bad time with my job back then I lost track of a lot of stuff in the garden. Last year the main crop stood very well and were happy in the ground - I was still digging up perfect tubers after Christmas. Kase |
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Kase wrote:
"sam" wrote in message ... Kase wrote: Well, that's the maincrop (British Queen) stuffed! At least the second earlies (Picasso) managed to get to a good size and quantity before it hit. I've cut down the halms - what a smell!! Kase South Manchester Bad luck,Kase.It's this terrible weather I believe. You going to drop this crop in future or use chemicals? Sam British Queen is dropped. The Picasso were dying back anyway so I don't think that it got them - the tubers are still perfect. Now I need to find an alternative main crop or another second early that I can leave in the ground when they have finished flowering - problem is that I have heavy clay soil so I'm plagued with slugs (I used to love King Edwards but at this house - no chance!) I just wish that I had written down what I planted last year, but because I was having a bad time with my job back then I lost track of a lot of stuff in the garden. Last year the main crop stood very well and were happy in the ground - I was still digging up perfect tubers after Christmas. Kase Have you tried nematode worms? They only attack slugs supposedly and are organic [of course]. I used them last year and hardly had a slug.This year I bought none and there have been multitudes of them.I've lost a lot of stuff so next year I shall get more.At £9 a time it's not cheap but it's either that or avoid certain crops. Sam. |
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