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redimp · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject: Gets worse

Fairly sure my potatoes are blighted now. Could I get anymore p***ed off with lottying this year?

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Delilah · Site drunken fairy Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 3920

nope probably not.........................SO MR IMP THERES ONLY ONE WAY TO GO NOW Very Happy

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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3475 Location: Kent

Which is?

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Delilah · Site drunken fairy Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 3920

Up ofcourse Laughing

.....................it can only get better surely Very Happy

and the sun is shining this morning, ok so I know rain is forecast for later but I'm ignoring that bit Laughing

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Icyberjunkie · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject:

Book Saturday for lottying, SATURDAY I tell you. Clear blue skies and 19oC.........

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Delilah · Site drunken fairy Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 3920

okidokes Mr Icy, I consider myself told Laughing

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wardy · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:04 am Post subject:

Ade you sure they're blighty. Might just be looking grotty cos of winds and constant wet

Shallots have now started showing signs of white rot. Never had it before and I've rotated them so biting me nails now. I've read that it's most prevalent in cool wet summers Evil or Very Mad

But did manage to get some of my pumpkins in before the heavens opened. Tomorrow is another day though Very Happy

frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3475 Location: Kent

I dug all my shallots out Wards, cos they'd started rotting too.... First time since I started Sad

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wardy · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:22 am Post subject:

I started digging mine up too but some of them were just mush and white fluff all over the bases Shocked

Maybe it's just down to the weather and we'll be ok next year Confused

Apparently it's not about rotation. Don't compost them Dom - burn them. The mushy ones that is. The others will be fine to eat

Icyberjunkie · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:28 am Post subject:

Virtually everyone on our site has blight and so have either topped the plants or dug them early Confused

About 30% of my onions have gone to seed as well, and squashed broken off at the roots.......See 'Been Plotting' in veg. Harvest was good though if a bit wet!

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"Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop,multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times" Mark 4, v8

moonbells · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:50 am Post subject:

You know, what with all the vandalism I've heard is happening at my site, plus all the weather, in some respects I'm quite glad I didn't manage to do much with mine, or I'd be very disheartened indeed!

I do have spuds in though (got all bar the Picasso in before the sickness hit), so had better go up tomorrow and see if there's any blight!

moonbells

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redimp · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject:

It has the characteristic:

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In moist weather the causal fungus is sometimes visible as a delicate white growth on the margins of the patches, particularly on the underside of the leaves.

I just got lucky and happened to be up the plot when it was raining I suppose Rolling Eyes

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