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Post by littlemouse on Oct 8, 2017 21:34:58 GMT 1
Its the 8th of October and I still have tomatoes ripening outside.Something to be said for living in 04.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2017 17:08:15 GMT 1
I suppose that it does, but we've still got them on the South Coast of England too...
Do you get the Blight there?
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Post by littlemouse on Oct 9, 2017 21:03:16 GMT 1
I haven’t had any blight these last two years,so for the moment the answer is no. But I can’t say that there isn’t any.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 12:58:37 GMT 1
mmmm.... The damp/wet summers elsewhere you don't get, which makes the Blight unlikely, but not impossible, as you say...
I suppose blight spores could reach you on the wind from elsewhere, and go on to flourish if in any particular year the weather conditions were good (bad)...
Had the blight in Normandy one year, but not in other years, and in Normandy the weather's ripe for blight. The year I got it I blamed the neighbouring farmers wife, upwind from me, for harbouring it in her potager and not burning infected material. Hope that you don't have such a neighbour, because once it arrives it's difficult to avoid in subsequent years - it just sticks around, waiting for good conditions..
ps: On a similar note UK farmers blame allotment holders for sustaining an annual population of carrot flies. Forbid your neighbour from growing carrots - what you want is rural isolation and a 50-mile exclusion zone.....
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Post by littlemouse on Oct 10, 2017 13:16:10 GMT 1
I don’t do carrots, they are to much work when you can buy 2kgs for 99 centimes.I’ve not done potatoes this year , because of colarado beetles, probably wont do them again for a long time.If ever.I overdid the courgettes reminder to self plant 2 plants instead of 4. I am going to try some aubergines and maybe some butternut squash next year.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 16:36:31 GMT 1
.....mmmmm but cheap carrots are not organic and laced with carrot fly killer?
Colorado beetle is a hazard of living in your South, I think. I have no experience of it. If all it does is eat the foliage of potatoes we have slugs here in the Uk that do that.....
Outside aubergines sound good where you are but also capsicums (sweet peppers) - those on Kos and the few I've grown myself are stunning compared with those bought from supermarkets.
ps: I'd stick with more courgette plants than you think you'll need (if you have the room) because you can always pick them very small (15 cms) and/or hack off some leaves to slow them down......*******
****** I started off with 14 plants this year and ended up with one - the slugs took the rest out - so you can never have too many, if you leave most of them in their pots until the first ones are producing in the ground, then chuck 'em if you get lucky......
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Post by littlemouse on Oct 10, 2017 18:12:26 GMT 1
sweet peppers I don’t know anything about those.I will do a bit of research on them.Next year I will have an area next to a wall 6 x 4 metres which I have been preparing over the last few weeks,hopefully this will give some protection from the wind.
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