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Blightwatch have emailed me my first Blight Alert of the season - thankfully only a "near miss" for my area but it still seems early for the year!!
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You can sign up for the service here.
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The proof of the growing is in the eating.
Leave Rotten Fruit.
Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potasium - potash.
Autant de têtes, autant d'avis!!!!!
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Just for info (it might stop some worries!!)....
When I was checking my spuds over the weekend I noticed some leaf damages and took a photo.
This is NOT blight, I'm pretty sure, but just Bacterial Speck - a fungus that likes to attack leaves that have got wet during watering.The proof of the growing is in the eating.
Leave Rotten Fruit.
Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potasium - potash.
Autant de têtes, autant d'avis!!!!!
Il n'est si méchant pot qui ne trouve son couvercle. -
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I got one for postcode TA45
I must have put that code in for somebody else, because it's the other end of the country! So, if you're in TA45 - there's a blight warning for your area!
If anybody wants further information about blight, including pics, there's a marvellous thread in Growing Techniques from last year; http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ght_33866.htmlComment
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Haha! For once I am ahead of the game, having sprayed the toms last week with Bordeaux mix. It's the one gardening job I dislike doing but I think it necessary if one wants to grow outdoor toms in a village full of potato farmers....Comment
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I got one in north Essex too!
All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.Comment
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It feels like I'll get one for here tomorrow
out with the sprayer for bordeaux. I'd like to stop using it but I actually want to EAT the crops I'm growing.
edit: just had a look and we had a near miss one day yesterday. but it wasn't emailed to me? weirdLast edited by Bramble_killer; 07-06-2010, 07:54 PM.Comment
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I got a full one, first this year but the weather doesn't feel right for it as the pressure has properly dropped since the weekend so am hoping it'll be OK. I don't spray as it's pretty nasty stuff which I don't want to contaminate the soil with so it's always a bit of a fingers crossed thiing. Lost one set of toms to it last year but the others and the spuds were OK as were the toms at home in the greenhouse. As I said, fingers crossed from now on this year.
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
Which one are you and is it how you want to be?Comment
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Fingers crossed here too - never had it myself - but then, this is only my second year, really! All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.Comment
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just got a full smith warning for all the postcode areas I'm watching
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me too
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I got a "near miss" today.There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.Comment
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I got a full smith warning and I planted my spuds late
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Same here, now what do we do?WPC F Hobbit, Shire policeComment
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GM?
Thanks for the thread teakdesk. I had forgotten to sign up for blightwatch and I've done so now. I should start getting the updates tomorrow by the sound of things.
Cheers for the reminder.
eliza - I've been a bit of a late starter on the spuds too. I'm glad I picked Sárpo Mira as my maincrop as it looks like I'll really need it now - some of my small samples that I'm growing a few plants of just because I can (salad blue, pink fir apple and golden wonder) are a bit of a worry though. I don't really like the idea of using copper on the plot so I'm trying to find out the details of something I read recently about a compost tea of some sort that had comparable results to the nastier treatments. Not having much luck though.
Anyone used organic controls with any success?Comment
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