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Dig them up and burn them?
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:00:40 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote: In article , says... Advice on how to deal with tomato blight seems to be to dig up and burn infected plants. Has anyone tried to set fire to a tomato? Presumably if you dry the infected plants and fruit before burning them this gives plenty of opportunity for the infection to be spread. And also takes a very long time in this weather. Not having an incinerator or a flame thrower I am not sure how to proceed. Cheers Dave R Bundle them up in a black bin bag and take them to your local council waste recycling centre. Most seem to have garden waste recycling bins nowadays. Whoa there neddy! The RHS recommend burying or burning; they say "don't compost". If there's a danger in adding blighted tomatoes/potatoes to your compost heap, might there not be a similar danger in adding them to the green skip at your local tip? Someone might well end up with the compost product. It may not be "green" but may be better to bag it up and put it into the "non-recyclable" skip along with general rubbish. |
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Jake wrote: Whoa there neddy! The RHS recommend burying or burning; they say "don't compost". If there's a danger in adding blighted tomatoes/potatoes to your compost heap, might there not be a similar danger in adding them to the green skip at your local tip? Someone might well end up with the compost product. That is true. What isn't is the advice. It's crap. In the UK, blight does not current form viable, durable spores, and is transmitted over the winter ONLY in live plants. Composting blighted material is perfectly safe. There are some very solid reasons for this - they may not remain true forever, but composting will not change when and if it ceases to be the case. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 6 Sep, 21:44, wrote:
In article , Jake wrote: Whoa there neddy! The RHS recommend burying or burning; they say "don't compost". If there's a danger in adding blighted tomatoes/potatoes to your compost heap, might there not be a similar danger in adding them to the green skip at your local tip? Someone might well end up with the compost product. That is true. *What isn't is the advice. *It's crap. In the UK, blight does not current form viable, durable spores, and is transmitted over the winter ONLY in live plants. *Composting blighted material is perfectly safe. *There are some very solid reasons for this - they may not remain true forever, but composting will not change when and if it ceases to be the case. Regards, Nick Maclaren. If you have a good fire going then you can burn the old tomato plants a few at the time, and you can always use some old cooking oil to boost the fire. This atitude of taking any plant material that has died or is infected by who knows what to the council recycling depot so it can come back to un suspecting gardeners at a later date. I'm sure that even though they get to higher temp. than you or I can get in our heaps I am sure that there are some things that wont be killed. Also what a good way to get rid of your grass clipings after you have treated your lavn with weed killer. Happy gardening everyone. David Hill |
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Nick wrote Jake wrote: Whoa there neddy! The RHS recommend burying or burning; they say "don't compost". If there's a danger in adding blighted tomatoes/potatoes to your compost heap, might there not be a similar danger in adding them to the green skip at your local tip? Someone might well end up with the compost product. That is true. What isn't is the advice. It's crap. In the UK, blight does not current form viable, durable spores, and is transmitted over the winter ONLY in live plants. Composting blighted material is perfectly safe. There are some very solid reasons for this - they may not remain true forever, but composting will not change when and if it ceases to be the case. Quite, I compost my blighted Tomato and Potato plants if I get any and always have done, never caused me a problem the following year. The only thing I will take to the dump is actual blighted potatoes and I don't put them in the green waste recycling either they go in the general waste. (as instructed by the operatives) -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK |
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Martin Brown wrote: I wouldn't be too keen to add onion white rot to my heap - even though I can get it up to quite a high temperature most years. Anything else I consider fair game though I will burn blighted plants if I happen to have a fire I have never been sure that the smoke isn't capable of spreading the infective agent as spores. White rot is very different but, in most gardens, the soil either has it or does not - in mine it does, so the allium vegetables are a waste of time. Chives and decorative ones seem OK. The smoke can certainly spread spores, but I don't know which will survive it. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article , Jake
writes It may not be "green" but may be better to bag it up and put it into the "non-recyclable" skip along with general rubbish. Try telling that to at least two people I've seen recently at the tip putting blighted stuff on he green waste! Too late to recall it as both times the stuff had already been dumped into the containers. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Dig them up and burn them?
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:51:25 +0100, Janet Tweedy
wrote: In article , Jake writes It may not be "green" but may be better to bag it up and put it into the "non-recyclable" skip along with general rubbish. Try telling that to at least two people I've seen recently at the tip putting blighted stuff on he green waste! Too late to recall it as both times the stuff had already been dumped into the containers. In this group, we're talking to the already converted Every visit to my local tip leaves me in despair. Not just garden stuff but idiots who can't tell the difference between an old vacuum cleaner and a cardboard box! At my local tip, idiots occasionally dump Knotweed but the chaps there are pretty alert. We always know when we see the plume of smoke as they thoroughly burn the contents of the skip. I now work on the basis that any compost which has in any minor part been sourced from amenity sites is to be avoided. This year I grew all my bedding plants in coir - those blocks you put in a wheelbarrow and then chuck a couple of buckets of water on. I had to feed/water them more but I got better plants at the end of the day. |
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