Rust on Chives
I just went out to cut some chives to put on my baked potatoes and was
disappointed to see the plant is covered in what looks like rust. Is there anything I can or should do, or is the plant a lost cause for this year? It's flowering beautifully, though, so at least it still looks pretty! Thanks |
Rust on Chives
I just went out to cut some chives to put on my baked potatoes and was
disappointed to see the plant is covered in what looks like rust. Is there anything I can or should do, or is the plant a lost cause for this year? It's flowering beautifully, though, so at least it still looks pretty! Thanks WD40 ? ;-) |
Rust on Chives
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Drakanthus wrote: I just went out to cut some chives to put on my baked potatoes and was disappointed to see the plant is covered in what looks like rust. Is there anything I can or should do, or is the plant a lost cause for this year? It's flowering beautifully, though, so at least it still looks pretty! WD40 ? ;-) Nice one! I wonder how that would work? You can spray with a generic fungicide, though I would use a simple copper-based one on plants that I am going to eat, or simply ignore the rust. It fairly rarely kills native plants - well, obviously, or they wouldn't be native - and as far as I know it isn't poisonous to humans. I wouldn't eat badly rusted chives, though, in case it does have a nasty mycotoxin - and some are VERY nasty. So you may have lost the crop until later in the year, but the plants should recover. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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