[Grubbypaws]

I have always disposed of my haulms and not composted them. However our council is having a bit of a melt down and not collecting garden waste bins. Is it possible to compost them or is this as foolish as I have always believed? We do have a hot bin which is currently nearly 70C.

[mumofstig]

Opinions are divided on this, see this recent thread. https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=135139.msg1557113#msg1557113
Personally I would put them in your hot bin 

[greenjay]

That's the very job I have been doing. I compost the cut off tops every year now. I used to dispose of them. Haven't noticed any difference. Still get blight. Later this year than others.

[jezza]

Hello you could burn them, at the market garden I worked at we burned blighted potato haulm and  and blighted tomatoes under the infectious diseases act,you would have to check to see if that act is still in place    jezza

[coldandwindy]

Just thinking aloud...

So, the received wisdom is that blight definitely only survives on living tissues, yes?

Everything in my area is killed by frosts but I'm told the spores arrive next year on the wind?

Where from?

[mumofstig]

Everything in my area is killed by frosts but I'm told the spores arrive next year on the wind?

Where from?

The spores often spread from infected potatoes left in a heap, in the corner of a field, to rot  (the top growth may be frosted but the tubers are still living material) otherwise It arrives in the UK on winds blowing in from the continent....

[cc]

Just thinking aloud...

So, the received wisdom is that blight definitely only survives on living tissues, yes?

Everything in my area is killed by frosts but I'm told the spores arrive next year on the wind?

Where from?

Scunthorpe