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Potato Blight
Looks like it's arrived in Hillingdon. I guess that determines what I
will be doing tomorrow with my First Earlies (Sharps Express). My Caras (which I chose because of their Blight resistance so far look healthy. Damnit JonH |
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:26:50 GMT, Baz wrote:
wrote in news:8jrtv7ddk9h5k9pi5bh6p6e1r77d2ej2m3@ 4ax.com: Looks like it's arrived in Hillingdon. I guess that determines what I will be doing tomorrow with my First Earlies (Sharps Express). My Caras (which I chose because of their Blight resistance so far look healthy. Damnit JonH I think blight has hit most, if not all areas. We just have to grin and bear it i'm afraid this year. It's not just you, you havn't done anything wrong. Baz Indeed. The Caras have also got it but not so badly but they will also have to be culled. Clearing the tops of the first earlies cleared up the question about what was eating the foliage. A whole host of slugs and snails. I've never seen so many varieties in the same place. This is going to cost an arm and a leg in slug pellets. On the bright side, I will have space to plant out some other things that I've got hidden away in pots. And it isn't too late for French Beans. Regards JonH |
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Baz wrote:
Looks like it's arrived in Hillingdon. I guess that determines what I will be doing tomorrow with my First Earlies (Sharps Express). My Caras (which I chose because of their Blight resistance so far look healthy. I think blight has hit most, if not all areas. We just have to grin and bear it i'm afraid this year. It's not just you, you havn't done anything wrong. Oddly, all of the potatoes on the allotment seem to have blight, but the tomatoes, which normally go first, are all up still (not mine, I'm too nervous to put mine out and they are still hiding in pots in the greenhouse!) |
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Vicky wrote
Baz wrote: Looks like it's arrived in Hillingdon. I guess that determines what I will be doing tomorrow with my First Earlies (Sharps Express). My Caras (which I chose because of their Blight resistance so far look healthy. I think blight has hit most, if not all areas. We just have to grin and bear it i'm afraid this year. It's not just you, you havn't done anything wrong. Oddly, all of the potatoes on the allotment seem to have blight, but the tomatoes, which normally go first, are all up still (not mine, I'm too nervous to put mine out and they are still hiding in pots in the greenhouse!) Yes, that is what has happened to us. Yet I noticed one of the new allotment gardeners has had half of her Toms destroyed. I sprayed the rest with BM for her so here's hoping it stops it spreading to the rest. Is this yet another new strain of blight, because it's usually the Toms that go first IME. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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Bob Hobden wrote:
Oddly, all of the potatoes on the allotment seem to have blight, but the tomatoes, which normally go first, are all up still (not mine, I'm too nervous to put mine out and they are still hiding in pots in the greenhouse!) Yes, that is what has happened to us. Yet I noticed one of the new allotment gardeners has had half of her Toms destroyed. I sprayed the rest with BM for her so here's hoping it stops it spreading to the rest. Is this yet another new strain of blight, because it's usually the Toms that go first IME. Could just be that everyone has started using blight-resistant tomatoes. Asked one guy and he said he took seeds from something on the allotment last year, so if it survived last year and came true this year, it may well be a havily blight-resistant. My allotment-strain is Harbinger, which I /think/ is resistant, but not strongly resistant, iirc. |
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wrote in message ... Looks like it's arrived in Hillingdon. I guess that determines what I will be doing tomorrow with my First Earlies (Sharps Express). My Caras (which I chose because of their Blight resistance so far look healthy. Damnit JonH I took the tops off the earlies that were affected, just a few only up to now and left the healthy ones. I took the haulms home and they are in the woodburner waiting to dry out a bit so they can be incinerated. I haven't grown potatoes for years and I never had blight so I don't know if I've made a bad decision by not digging all the earlies up even though many of them don't seem to be affected - yet. I don't want the blight to spread to the maincrop. I am so glad I signed up to Bligh****ch. I got another warning by text from them yesterday and it makes me travel a mile and a half to check my potatoes. |
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Vicky wrote
Bob Hobden wrote: Oddly, all of the potatoes on the allotment seem to have blight, but the tomatoes, which normally go first, are all up still (not mine, I'm too nervous to put mine out and they are still hiding in pots in the greenhouse!) Yes, that is what has happened to us. Yet I noticed one of the new allotment gardeners has had half of her Toms destroyed. I sprayed the rest with BM for her so here's hoping it stops it spreading to the rest. Is this yet another new strain of blight, because it's usually the Toms that go first IME. Could just be that everyone has started using blight-resistant tomatoes. Asked one guy and he said he took seeds from something on the allotment last year, so if it survived last year and came true this year, it may well be a havily blight-resistant. My allotment-strain is Harbinger, which I /think/ is resistant, but not strongly resistant, iirc. I hate to spoil the party but the allotment gardener with 6 allotments who uses various sprays has got blight on his blight resistant tomatoes. Also noticed some of ours are looking like they are succumbing too despite being sprayed with Bordeaux Mixture and being totally resistant in the past. This has got to be something new, a new strain. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... wrote in message ... Looks like it's arrived in Hillingdon. I guess that determines what I will be doing tomorrow with my First Earlies (Sharps Express). My Caras (which I chose because of their Blight resistance so far look healthy. Damnit JonH I took the tops off the earlies that were affected, just a few only up to now and left the healthy ones. I took the haulms home and they are in the woodburner waiting to dry out a bit so they can be incinerated. I haven't grown potatoes for years and I never had blight so I don't know if I've made a bad decision by not digging all the earlies up even though many of them don't seem to be affected - yet. I don't want the blight to spread to the maincrop. I am so glad I signed up to Bligh****ch. I got another warning by text from them yesterday and it makes me travel a mile and a half to check my potatoes. All the allotments around where I live in County Durham seem to have very poor crops this year of potatoes, peas, cabbage etc. I grow my potatoes in plastic boxes and flower buickets, anything I can get my hands on really, in my back yard. Already had 2 allotment holders tell me that it looks like I have good crops. Here's hoping. Just hope the local light fingered brigade don't harvest them one night before I get to them. Jim G |
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