[arugula]

If the Potato Council is so quick to blame, where is their unequivocal proof?

My understanding from reading that press release, is that they are "blaming" - not a good word - the huge uptake of new allotmenteers who have little or no growing knowledge and no undertanding of Smith periods and blight symptoms, for not recognising the problem in their own crop in time, thus allowing it to spread.

The press release also says that the Potato Council also recruited blight monitors. As we know here they could have had more of those, as pointed in the right direction, a number of our forum members tried to register for this task without any luck.

[potatogrower]

i could see this coming. i guess to some degree we are responsible to maintain blight if we see it in our plots and also with a lot of people turning to grow your own it gives rise to other pests. education/awareness is the way forward.

[Growster...]

Arrr, but us allotmenteers are such simple folk, we jus' don't unnerstand what those big wigs in gummint know, an' so we jus' do what we know's right, an' the gummint people complain 'cos they 'ave to make laws an' stuff, and get paid (an' get enormous expenses) ferrit...

Meanwhile, Mrs Growster and I have loads of veg which we've grown, far, far away from the prying eyes of the gummint police, and as such are swimming in healthy soups, and spend our days gorging ourselves on great big leafy salads and casseroles, and we're also getting exercise by the hour, while these gummint twillets sit behind old desks and ponder their fate...

Pathetic.

[Mrs Bee]

Arrr, but us allotmenteers are such simple folk, we jus' don't unnerstand what those big wigs in gummint know, an' so we jus' do what we know's right, an' the gummint people complain 'cos they 'ave to make laws an' stuff, and get paid (an' get enormous expenses) ferrit...

Meanwhile, Mrs Growster and I have loads of veg which we've grown, far, far away from the prying eyes of the gummint police, and as such are swimming in healthy soups, and spend our days gorging ourselves on great big leafy salads and casseroles, and we're also getting exercise by the hour, while these gummint twillets sit behind old desks and ponder their fate...

Pathetic.

 

[New shoot]

Aaaaahhhh the wise old Growster speaks 

Them thar gumminty types need with a fair bit of grubbing round in the soil and a mug of  home grown soup while leaning on a spade and chewing the fat with a plot neighbour.  Would do them some proper good and get them rules and regulations into clear view   

[madcat]

chewing the fat with a plot neighbour. 

Oh No!  FAT! actually eating FAT!    Send the health police round!  Newshoot needs newthinking ... 

 

[Growster...]

'Chewing the fat' explains exactly what needs to be done these days...

Gummints come an' go, thankfully, (preferably without first-clas travel) but fat-mastication will be with us forever!

;0)

[dugless]

well I found some good came out of it  :)for me
I noticed the farmer I get my main potatoes from had not put out his board,
So on the off chance I called in, apparently this year he was unable to gade his potatoes
And was only  selling them to regular customers at a reduce price.I bought two 56 lb (25kiloes) for £6

[mumofstig]

There was a piece on Sky news about it this morning
http://www.klfm967.co.uk/news/uk-news/795149/gardeners-blamed-for-spreading-potato-blight/

Hopefully everyone now knows how to deal with it ................

[Growster...]

There was a piece on Sky news about it this morning
http://www.klfm967.co.uk/news/uk-news/795149/gardeners-blamed-for-spreading-potato-blight/

Hopefully everyone now knows how to deal with it ................

If I could understand how to pronounce its Latin name, that would be a start...

[New shoot]

Fy-toff-thora    Easier after a tincture or 3 - try it later 

[Growster...]

Fy-toff-thora    Easier after a tincture or 3 - try it later 

Aaah, those were the days, when I had to 'Fight off Thora'...;0)

Thanks News - or should it pthanks...

;0) (I warned you...)!

[New shoot]

    

[mumofstig]

Response from Sarvari defending gardeners (and appealing for funds  )
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/9643877/The-fight-against-potato-blight.html

[Aunt Sally]

Truth will out