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Re: Lady Christl
« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2013, 13:38 »
Ah, but the smaller seed spuds had the biggest offspring, but lower overall yield.
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: Lady Christl
« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2013, 13:38 »
The conclusion is that generally speaking large parents have large children and vice versa. Bit Darwinian really.

That is not the case with all vegetables, so it's worth DD pointing the fact out:

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=80632.msg903006#msg903006
"They say a snow year's a good year" -- Rutherford.

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Re: Lady Christl
« Reply #17 on: July 01, 2013, 13:39 »
Snap-ish! :D

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Re: Lady Christl
« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2013, 17:57 »
Ah, but the smaller seed spuds had the biggest offspring, but lower overall yield.

Right ho.
I'll have to email Marshalls and tell them they are in breach of some Darwinian code with their claims for elephant garlic this year.
Over the years I've found that large seed potatoes produce the largest crops and avoid small seed when I buy it. Never really got into measuring spud size though. My aim is for quantity, the quality is a given.

http://www.marshalls-seeds.co.uk/garlic-elephant-jumbo-cloves-pid2430.html?gclid=CLm2jZ_hjrgCFbQetAodZRIA_A
« Last Edit: July 01, 2013, 18:03 by Lincolnshire Floyd »

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Re: Lady Christl
« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2013, 22:06 »
....Unfortunately I've lost about half my crop this year to blackleg. For certified seed I think this is completely unacceptable but very difficult to prove where it came from. I don't suppose the fact that my other four varieties are completely unaffected would cut much ice with the supplier.

Me too - 20 tubers planted; 2 didn't grow at all, 8 gone down with blackleg and of the remaining 10, 6 are yellowish, weedy looking specimens less than 6" tall after 12 weeks. My PJs and Belle de Fontenay grown alongside are all looking fine!

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Re: Lady Christl
« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2013, 23:27 »
Unfortunately I've lost about half my crop this year to blackleg. For certified seed I think this is completely unacceptable but very difficult to prove where it came from. I don't suppose the fact that my other four varieties are completely unaffected would cut much ice with the supplier.

Certified tubers relate to the virus-free status.

Blackleg is a fungal disease.
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days all attack me at once...

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Re: Lady Christl
« Reply #21 on: July 03, 2013, 23:35 »
Exactly Yorkie.

We have a retired Professor from a nearby school of agriculture on our site. He'll tell you it's one of those things that you can't blame the growers of seed, nor the in between retailers for. It's undetectable.

The RHS back this up, if anyone cares to look.

It's not acceptable to blame the supplier.



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