brassica club root - help!

[lapin_rouge]

Is there anything I can do to save the crop?

12th July - my purple sprouting brocolli is thriving - easily waist height already (sorry - dont know if they are autumn or spring flowering, they were garden centre plants without a proper name or detail). In fact they are so vigorous, to allow space I've pulled out some plants & given them to the pet rabbits (very much appreciated)

Snag is, the plants I pulled out definitely have club root . The soil is mostly ex-compost heap so probabily fairly acid (yes, I now know I should have limed the soil)

Can the plants be saved ? or should I cut my losses and let the bunny's eat them?

Cheers!

[gojiberry]

If you started with good strong plants then club root isn't always detrimental to the crop. If your plants are thriving then they are obviously coping with the disease. Just make sure you dispose of the roots and stalk after you harvest and don't put on the compost heap. It wont hurt your rabbits but not sere about the manure from the rabbits if you were to use it on the garden/plot.

Ian

[Snadger]

If the plants make it to the winter they should survive. Clubroot is only prevalent when the soil is warm and moist, as with any other fungal attacks.
Sometimes earthing up helps the plant to establish new roots and you may need to stake the PSB as the clubroot fungus attacks the roots and makes them unstable.

Good luck! Now you know you have it, it's not the be all and end all.

Always grow your own brassicas from seed and never buy or accept any plants from anyone else!

[Maddie106]

If the plants make it to the winter they should survive. Clubroot is only prevalent when the soil is warm and moist, as with any other fungal attacks.
Sometimes earthing up helps the plant to establish new roots and you may need to stake the PSB as the clubroot fungus attacks the roots and makes them unstable.

Good luck! Now you know you have it, it's not the be all and end all.

Always grow your own brassicas from seed and never buy or accept any plants from anyone else!

Thanks for those tips Snadger,

I harvested a very healthy looking cabbage this week, only to find signs of the dreaded clubroot on its roots. A couple of the PSB plants are wilting, despite adequate water.
I'll earth up round the roots and stake them to see if I can retrieve them from going in the dustbin!

[lapin_rouge]

Thanks!

Brilliant - great advice much appreciated !

Earthing up & banging in some good stakes sounds like good advice (last year my broccoli keeled over at the first touch of snow - prob had clubroot). The current plants are certainly growing strong (so far) so I'll see how they go.

Incidentally - rabbit manure is amazing stuff, my french beans thrive on it. Doesnt do the lawn much good though.

Thanks again.