[savbo]

Hi all

Clearing away my sprouts yesterday, I noticed big swellings on the roots, so it looks like I have club root. And yet the spouts grew quite well (not staked enough which is why most of the sprouts blew but still got an OK little crop), PSB is massive and kale is fine. I won't know until I lift them whether they're affected too, but I grew the plants to a good size and limed the hole at planting....

Do other people try to live with club root or do you give up on brassicas?

sav

[Yorkie]

Some brassicas are more affected than others; I have a suspicion that kale is relatively OK.

DD grows clubroot resistant caulis - I think they're called Clapton.

I recall something on TV advising to grow the brassicas to a decent size in a pot - so that the roots are bigger before planting out, and to put a decent dusting of lime directly into the planting hole.

[Kleftiwallah]

Grow your brassica seeds in 'clean' soil or compost and transplant in to clean soil or compost.  The idea is for the brassicas to build up a good root system before inflicting them into your clubbed bed.      Cheers,    Tony.

[azubah]

I live with it and try not to grow brassicas on the infected areas. I usually get some plants suffering with it each year, so it is getting more difficult with every season. I am trying resistant varieties this year.

[DD.]

I've got very bad club root. From a very old post:

My method.

One seed per cell in a seed tray insert. (20 to half seed tray, 40 to a full tray).

This sort of thing:



Germinate in cold greenhouse, (Please no heated propagators unless you want weak plants), grow on until first pair of true leaves.

Pot into 3" pots, let them establish, then harden off.

Plant out when 6"-8" high into rock solid ground.

Advantages are the economy of seed & the plant goes in with an established root ball.

And yes - the caulis I mostly grow are Clapton.