Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: egym on November 01, 2007, 17:56
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i've been told that theres a lot of it about on my allotment. what veg does it affect and how do i prevent it.?? :?:
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It is a fungus which affects all brassicas. You 'contol' it (rather than prevent it) by liming and by bringing on transplants to a larger size before planting out. You can also plant brassicas into 'pockets' of compost created in the open ground.
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Thanks, what is liming? and if im planting out how will i recognise the fungus?
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try this, Munty gives the basic advise ..
http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=8623&highlight=clubroot
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Adding lime. You won't see the fungus.
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another way of killing it completly is to rotation burn.. set a bonfire in turn along the plot .making a big fire the heat will travel down and kill all weeds and other spores .. this is a heavy handed approach to getting rid but it is total .. it only fails if you bring in soil or plants carrying the spores from another place :)
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Thanks. it all seems clearer now.
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That explains why they used to set fire to the fields in days gone by?
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That explains why they used to set fire to the fields in days gone by?
Probably not - straw burning is more likely.
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another way of killing it completly is to rotation burn.. set a bonfire in turn along the plot .making a big fire the heat will travel down and kill all weeds and other spores .. this is a heavy handed approach to getting rid but it is total .. it only fails if you bring in soil or plants carrying the spores from another place :)
That sunds the simplicity f genius t me. Them spores die exposed to heat ver 60C for mre than a day, nly the question(sorry the o key is rubbish): hw far dwn they are in the sil and hw much the sil t that level heats up?
You work that ut and gnna be a millinaire, r somene else, wh reads this will. :lol:
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yes it was just for that straw burning
my last summer doing that i was standing with a shotgun and shooting rabbits as they came hurtling out ,my dog was picking them up .i had shot 3 and then left them to pick up as i walked back up the field on my return to the gates and i stood gobsmacked as a fox cub came out the hedge and helped herself to them taking each in turn back to the hedge .. didnt have the heart to shoot it :)
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yes it was just for that straw burning
my last summer doing that i was standing with a shotgun and shooting rabbits as they came hurtling out ,my dog was picking them up .i had shot 3 and then left them to pick up as i walked back up the field on my return to the gates and i stood gobsmacked as a fox cub came out the hedge and helped herself to them taking each in turn back to the hedge .. didnt have the heart to shoot it :)
Your god will kiss you on both cheeks for that. :lol: :wink:
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:lol: :lol: :lol: im sure not bending over for that mate :lol: :lol: :lol:
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sorry the o key is rubbish
): will. :lol:[/quote]
Why not use the zer0 key instead if u got no "o" !
8)
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Ahh, that one is completely gone. :lol:
Nice idea, but if you can type, you are on autopilot, I find. :)