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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: chrissie B on August 11, 2007, 09:43

Title: an emergancy
Post by: chrissie B on August 11, 2007, 09:43

our lovley toms are ripening with yellow blotches on them and they are ripening unevenly, what did i do and can i rectify it .
chrissie b

Title: an emergancy
Post by: WG. on August 11, 2007, 09:56

Too much heat or too little potash (says Doc Hessayon)

Title: an emergancy
Post by: chrissie B on August 11, 2007, 10:00

carnt do anything about the heat as we are having a heatwave this summer and only got a little potash left , is there another solution as an alternative  :?:
chrissie b

Title: an emergancy
Post by: muntjac on August 11, 2007, 11:18

burn some wood on a fire .tree branches etc nothing containing chemicals .then rake it up sieve it to remove any lumps hand sprinkle some on the toms and water . :wink:

Title: an emergancy
Post by: chrissie B on August 11, 2007, 15:24

we use the stuff from our bbq as we dont have a working fire , looks like hubby will have to fire up the old barbi.
chrissie b

Title: an emergancy
Post by: Donut on August 13, 2007, 08:11

Be careful with BBQ ash as coal ash is not good compared with wood ash.
Donut

Title: an emergancy
Post by: chrissie B on August 13, 2007, 12:52

hubby uses a combination af wood and nrws paper to get it going along wjth the charcole , as charcole is wood i didnt think there would be any probs  :?
chrissie b

Title: an emergancy
Post by: Donut on August 13, 2007, 13:06

You should have no problems with the ash from wood, paper and conventional charcoal - spread away  :)
Donut