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Post by troll on Oct 14, 2012 21:09:05 GMT 1
I've had to BUY spuds.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2012 21:36:15 GMT 1
Sorry to hear that troll, but you've always got the mushrooms... until they go out of season... then you might have to buy more spuds... You really do seem to live on a knife-edge...
Anyway, your poor potato crop was not really blight-related. The soil sounds weak, so they never made anything, and even if there hadn't been a blight you'd've still been lifting marbles.... Cue more info, to prove me wrong, in the style of Ali, or I'll just carry on knowing that I'm never wrong, which is probably the simplest thing to do all round...
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Post by Ali on Oct 14, 2012 21:42:50 GMT 1
............... and my theory of leaving them in the ground for as long as poss has bourne fruit coz I have loads of Desiree left, plenty for Chrstimas roasties The charlottes are good too. Despite the blight that took everything off the top not one actual tattie got rot. They are a zillion times smaller than normal tho and thats prob coz the blight cutoff their feed early - that and I didn't water all through the very dry season we had. SUCCESS - Chinese Cabbage - sewn in the GH and planted out in early Sept - fab growth and not too much catty damage. No bolting or going to seed and think thats coz I put them out later in the season. Succulent used as a plate for a seafood 'cocktail' and the hens adore the outer leaves - result
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Post by Ali on Oct 14, 2012 21:44:37 GMT 1
Forgot to add - have HUGE leekes too, sown from seed. Bosters
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2012 22:02:45 GMT 1
Are you saying, Ali,that by not eating something you've still got it, and that it proves a 'theory' of yours - sort of, not eating something is a very good thing 'cos then it lasts and lasts? Or are you saying that by leaving the spuds in the ground they didn't get blight, but if you'd've dug them up they surely would've??? Anyway, I'm glad you've had success, even if I can't figure out how....
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Post by troll on Oct 14, 2012 22:20:53 GMT 1
Sorry to hear that troll, but you've always got the mushrooms... until they go out of season... then you might have to buy more spuds... You really do seem to live on a knife-edge... Anyway, your poor potato crop was not really blight-related. The soil sounds weak, so they never made anything, and even if there hadn't been a blight you'd've still been lifting marbles.... Cue more info, to prove me wrong, in the style of Ali, or I'll just carry on knowing that I'm never wrong, which is probably the simplest thing to do all round... I usually have decent -sized spuds, and somewhere on here I posted pics of really well-grown charlottes , before the blight, that made jolly good midnight snacks for the coypu. I have an abundance of organic matter to enrich my lovely free-draining loam. really don't think weak soil is the problem. Thank you for your concern, the chestnuts have also failed, so you may wish to demonstrate your philanthropy by sending food parcels to trollworld.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2012 22:49:18 GMT 1
Thank you for the additional information concerning the organic matter in your soil, troll, released after I'd opined that the soil 'sounds' weak... All this talk from you folk over there about the soil being 'bone' dry, yet you're still having good, strong, soil, makes me think that the soil water is being sucked out through the plant by transpiration losses in sunny/windy periods... until you tell me that you never have sun, nor wind, and if you did it would never get through the 50' walls you all have round your potagers......
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2012 16:53:53 GMT 1
Dear troll,
Don't think that I've ignored your pitiable plea for food parcels...
I've decided against it because that would lay me open to the charge of favouritism. Worse, other wimmin would cold-shoulder you, while insisting that there's absolutely nothing the matter... Eventually you'd realise that all your friends hate you... You don't need low self-esteem to add to your current woes...
So I suggest that you take to eating tree bark. Rabbits like young ash trees. With your kooky culinary tastes I'm sure that you can come up with risotto of tree bark, or tree bark steaks...
And if you pick the right hallucinogenic mushrooms you'lll convince yourself, with no effort at all, that you're eating the finest venison. But you know this already....
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Post by Ali on Oct 15, 2012 22:07:55 GMT 1
Are you saying, Ali,that by not eating something you've still got it, and that it proves a 'theory' of yours - sort of, not eating something is a very good thing 'cos then it lasts and lasts? Or are you saying that by leaving the spuds in the ground they didn't get blight, but if you'd've dug them up they surely would've??? Anyway, I'm glad you've had success, even if I can't figure out how.... Errr no. I'm simply saying that I dug as needed and left digging up the rest til the rains came and none were rotten.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2012 15:13:20 GMT 1
AArrrrrrrrrgh! Ali! I've just re-read your theory about leaving spuds in the ground and I still can't find any logic in it! Please don't bring girly non-logic into the potager! The Great Potato Famine of the 1840's in Ireland was caused by non-thinking of that sort!!!!!! Please, one more time, explain the benefit of leaving spuds in the ground.... It might help to know that elsewhere I am embraced as an intellectual giant. Here, I'm little better than a freaky misfit! Does the preponderance of wimmin on this forum have any bearing on this? ?? A lone voice of reason in a wilderness of illogicality... I am now tearing my hair out...... AArrrrrrgh!
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