[LivvyW]

I have picked tow caulies in the last week, both with knarly roots. I don't share tools, bring in plug plants, it's my garden plot and we have no neighbours and i rotate well..... how have i got club root all of a sudden?

[brewerboy]

one of the great mysteries of gardening

[Yorkie]

You've eliminated the most obvious ones such as in imported compost and from neighbouring plots.

It's not a wind borne pathogen so can't have come in that route.

Have you been onto anyone else's garden or allotment?

Wikipaedia link here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_Clubroot

[themoog]

My sympathies  . I found out today that I've got clubroot and have lost most of my summer brassicas and half of my autumn cabbages, which are just not going to grow any further.

[sunshineband]

Don't despair.

 Use DD's tip of growing in modules until there is a healthy root system, then planting out.

 Gives the plants a fighting chance 

[LivvyW]

Your right sunshineband, i raise practically everything in modules, and i only discovered the clubroot when i was lifting a rather nice caulie out for eating. Think the plants were planted with a good drop of lime in the hole too, i think that may help.

[azubah]

Which brand of bought compost have you been using? Could it have come from there?

[dugless]

 I read somewhere that lime helps to reduce the affects of club root and not gowing

on the same spot for I think it said three years.

[digalotty]

there is no reason why you cant grow good brassica's as long as you raise them in modules and pot on to establish a good root system,  when planting out dig a hile and sprinkle garden lime before planting

[peapod]

There are also club root resistant plants.  Coupled with advice about liming etc plus growing 'Clapton' caulie for example means that not all is lost.

[digalotty]

 oohh yes peapod i forgot that you could get resistant plants

[8doubles]

A bird with muddy beak or feet could carry disease many miles in minutes  .