[Hose A]

Hi all,  this is my first growing season almost over, it's been brilliant with more successes than failures and I've learnt a lot to take into the next season but I've got many unanswered questions. The bed that I chose for my brassicas I've discovered is proned to clubroot all my calabrese, pak choi and most of my savoys have been badly affected the only brassica success has been the autumn cabbage 'kilatron' which I've discovered is resistant. As per all the books I've disgarded any affected plants but some savoys have had reasonable heads so I've wondered would it have been safe to eat them? and just disgard the stalks and roots.

cheers all. 

[8doubles]

Perfectly safe to eat , as you said just put the roots and stalk in the dustbin and not in the compost bin.

[arugula]

Snap.

[DD.]

For cauli's try "Clapton". I have good success with them on my club root infested soil.

I think the cabbage is Kilaton, BTW - without the "r"!

[Hose A]

Thanks all, I'll know now not get rid of good heads  and thanks for the cauli advice DD and yes yor right it's kilaton my mistake, while we're on this subject of club root one of the elder gentlemen on our plot told me that when brassicas are ready for planting out always put a small piece of rhubarb stick in the hole, just wondered if anyone else had heard this before??

cheers.

[DD.]

Been there, tried it, done it, forget it.

[8doubles]

I believe clubroot likes acid soil and rhubarb contains oxalic acid so i think you will get better results with the tried and tested `handful of lime' when planting brassicas.

[DD.]

Exactly. Can't understand the reasoning behind that one, but as we've seen time & time again, the OB's can come out with some nonsense, as well as sage advice.

(I'm 60 next year, will that make me one?)


A link to my method:

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=84565.msg941606#msg941606

[Hose A]

Excellent stuff another queary ticked of the list, thanks a lot and by the the way this OB is way,way over 60 so still some way to go

cheers

[mumofstig]

(I'm 60 next year, will that make me one?)

I'm not classed as one of the 'oldies' on our allotments, and I'm a few years older than you.
So you must be a young'un as well.............as long as no-one hears you groan and grumble when you're digging and weeding,you'll be fine for a few years yet  

[DD.]

as long as no-one hears you groan and grumble when you're digging and weeding,you'll be fine for a few years yet  

Oh.

[Yorkie]

as long as no-one hears you groan and grumble when you're digging and weeding,you'll be fine for a few years yet  

Ah indeed.  Don't like that test