[audrey padmore]

hello allotmenteers  can someone help please I have got club root on my plot and I was looking for something to treat it , If I recall there used to be a powder for club root that you dusted the roots of brassicas with before planting them. It was yellow and called sulpher of something like that . Does anyone know it? and where I might get it  please thanks  audrey.

[mumofstig]

RHS says

There are no chemicals available to gardeners to treat club root.

More info and good advice here
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=128

[Hamani]

Lime helps to prevent / slow down club root. So make sure you do so appropriately.

Also, I find growing brassicas on in large tubs before planting out usually gives them enough of a head start that club root doesn't have much effect.

Like most garden problems it's easier to find ways to live with it, than try to 'cure' it.

- Gary.

[DD.]

I'd agree with the above, but would use the word "pots" rather than "tubs".

It could give the wrong idea of scale!

[Hose A]

There is a product available that may supress club root called Perlka, a couple of guys at our site swear by it though I've never tried it myself, it's sold as a fertilizer but has a high lime content therefore that could be the reason for resisting club root, I personaly go along with the previous messages; bring brassicas on in up to 4 or 5 inch pots to get a strong root formation, plant out in oversized holes dusted with lime and back fill with sterile soil mixed with a hand full of lime, since using this method I've lost very few brassicas. If you want to check out the Perlka option see the link below;

http://www.medwynsofanglesey.co.uk/shop/prod_240.html