Evening ladies and gents, I spent the day at the allotment weeding the salad patch, it now looks very empty and it's quite hard too see the difference between grass growing where it shouldn't and baby spring onions (I haven't really grown much veg in the past apart from tommies really). Red lettuce and radishes doing well though.
Sorry to hear about the blight Becks, but it's one of those things as a gardener you can't really do much about (unless you want to faff around with Bordeaux mix but that will only slow blight down rather than stop it). I'd do as suggested and take the affected leaves off and of course keep your fingers crossed!
My OH has got the BBQ fired up for tea and I will most probably be tucking in to a selection of burnt things in due course.
Dean - I have no idea, I've seen it listed at the allotment shop for sale though, not that I have any intention of using it.
Becks - Bordeaux Mix is a copper based solution which you can spray on tatties or tommies, it's supposed to form a barrier on the leaves so that air born blight spores can't infect the plant. It's called Bordeaux Mix because it was first used on vines in vinyards in the Bordeaux region of France.
Just checked the BBQ, not sure what the black things started out as.
Evening all. Good to know you've been playing nicely while I was out. Sorry to hear about the blighted. I have no blight but no tomatoes either. Tell a lie - I had 4 this week from 5 plants.
Pepper dog failed to misbehave so didn't win naughtiest dog. A very barky little spitz took the rosette. He's now barking very loudly and unnecessarily at sheep on Countryfile.
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Evening ladies and gents, I spent the day at the allotment weeding the salad patch, it now looks very empty and it's quite hard too see the difference between grass growing where it shouldn't and baby spring onions (I haven't really grown much veg in the past apart from tommies really). Red lettuce and radishes doing well though.
Sorry to hear about the blight Becks, but it's one of those things as a gardener you can't really do much about (unless you want to faff around with Bordeaux mix but that will only slow blight down rather than stop it). I'd do as suggested and take the affected leaves off and of course keep your fingers crossed!
My OH has got the BBQ fired up for tea and I will most probably be tucking in to a selection of burnt things in due course.
Leggi, I don't even know what Bordeaux mix is!!
Becks - I will not mourn n become to failure! Oh! Shoot! That begins with F!
Leggie - Ain't Bordeaux mix being withdrawn from the shelves this year? Sure I remember reading it somewhere! I may be wrong!!
Dean - I have no idea, I've seen it listed at the allotment shop for sale though, not that I have any intention of using it.
Becks - Bordeaux Mix is a copper based solution which you can spray on tatties or tommies, it's supposed to form a barrier on the leaves so that air born blight spores can't infect the plant. It's called Bordeaux Mix because it was first used on vines in vinyards in the Bordeaux region of France.
Just checked the BBQ, not sure what the black things started out as.
Leggi, they were slugs.
Haha, well that's a new way of getting rid of them.
Not that I'll be having any for my tea
The only Bordeaux I know is red or white and comes in a bottle. Only joking
Enjoy you BBQ leggi, it's not BBQ weather here.
Evening all. Good to know you've been playing nicely while I was out. Sorry to hear about the blighted. I have no blight but no tomatoes either. Tell a lie - I had 4 this week from 5 plants.
Pepper dog failed to misbehave so didn't win naughtiest dog. A very barky little spitz took the rosette. He's now barking very loudly and unnecessarily at sheep on Countryfile.
Becks, slugs :- D
Glyn, decisioning - yuk yuk yuketty yuk
Just had AA out to the hire car as I discovered a flat tyre on taking out the rubbish!
Why would you send out an inebriated person in a yellow van is beyond me!