SOS ziggy

being new to this growing marlarky this year I plant everything that even looks like its got a slim chance of growing, and 99% of stuff does, I planted 3 rows of tattys from the local Londis that had been left over and started chucking out shoots in the veg bin, about 21 in all, I'm out in the back garden seeding yet more peas (about 500 now Anne n green shaft) when I notice spots on a few of the tatty leafs, like dark brown spots that spread to the plant next to it, now like I say I plant everything coz I'm Plant Potty:yess: but after joining the forum I've been reading non stop and found out about why seed tattys are seed tatty and clones n all due to blight n other nasty stuff, but I was to late learning that, I just dug up two of the plants that looked suspect n had some lovely looking new tattys:yess: but my worry is blight n all the other stuff these seeds dont protect against, so my question is....shall I dig up all the tattys coz I've got corn in pots ready to go in? or leave the others n see what goes on? your call ziggy, dig n eat or leave n hope?

I've got a photo of the brown spots n will put up a link after tea (home cooked Kedgree:WINK1

Kind Regards, Plant Potty.

 

Hi PP,

Theres a good chance the shop bought tiddies could be carrying blight so I wouldn't risk leaving them in. Especially if its spreading from one plant to another.

I'd dig them now as new potatoes and get the corn in.

Its a bit early for blight but then again, I did get a blight alert text last week.

If you've got any more unaffected potatoes then spray with bordeau mixture as a preventative if you want to leave them to get bigger.

 

Thanks ziggy, sounds like a plan, the tattys are all different plants as I buy small bags from the Londis and one or two from each was used as seed, some (a couple or three) started to look less than the others soon after coming up, but some look super healthy on par if not better than the "Foremost" first earlys I got from BnQ n grew in a planter out the front, I have no intention of growing tattys again as I'm growing to save cash n the ground would be better used growing more costly stuff than tattys, I'll dig them out and replace with corn......on "other Dumb questions" why is my beetroot not the same colours? some/most are red stalked going into green leaves n a few are pure green with n sign of red in them!

anyway thanks for the help n its good to know what I'm thinking of doing was the same as you recomend

Kind Regards Plant Potty

 

My postcode selection for blight alerts http://www.blightwatch.co.uk/content/bw-Smith.asp included just within every surrounding county, especially where I knew of commercials growers most likely to report incidence of blight.

Is this the flip side of all that rain you've been getting?

My father used to make humidity meters, wish I'd kept one.

 

In dont know, but while sat having a beer with the lass next door and her new bf I noticed two of my onions had bolted, never grown them before just knew what I was looking at coz of the info on this forum, I pulled off the forming flower heads in hope that would help them and gave them a ton more water lol aint gardening fun

Plant Potty

 

And since watering my onions its rained non stop

Anyway, this is what was on the leafs http://i764.photobucket.com/albums/xx282/phil_067/SDC10986.jpg (hope you can see the photo) I dug out my rain mack from the darkest debths of the coat cupbroad and ventured into the trenchs, its HAMMMERING DOWN I ended up covered in mud but dug out a pile, I stopped coz of the rain and the fact its more than enough to eat today, http://i764.photobucket.com/albums/xx282/phil_067/SDC10995.jpg so its Chicken sturfry and home grown new tattys timed for the start of the Canadian Grand Prix:yess:, life dont get much better than that, well mine dont

Plant Potty.

 

Great tiddies PP

Don't think thats blight, might just be magnesium difficiency.

Try giving whats left a liquid feed if you do want to keep em, other wise, enjoy em

 

Cool, thanks ziggy, I've cleared enough ground for the corn anyway, only 22 of the corn seed came up (in individuel pots), but the packet did say 3 seeds per station so it must have a poor germination rate, I really dont know what my soil is like, I've been here ten years and sighted the veg patch in a dissused corner that gets sun from dawn to dusk, on digging it over I found all sorts of stuff like nails breeze blocks, plant pots, drill bits n things, I think there was once a shed there, but worste of all was this http://i764.photobucket.com/albums/xx282/phil_067/SDC10614.jpg I've got some Vitax blood fish and bone from pounland, its 5% P2 O5 and 6% K2O, do you recon to dig that in (when it finaly stops raining lol) for the corn?

I've got Doff from (yes everything in Pottyland is done on a shoe string and a prayer to mother nature) Poundland, I can go with the multi purpose at 3.9% K2O or the Tomatoe feed at 4%

Many thanks Plant Potty

 

Blimey,

Looks like a pet piggys jaw, its been fed milk into adulthood, the bone would be paler if it hadn't.

BF & Bone sounds a good move, not sure about the other stuff as i'm mainly organic & make my own liquid feeds.

 

I think it was a Jack Russell, same one I have, I deffo wont be burrying mine in the garden, at the end of the day we all move house or die (which evers sooner:D), so some poor sod will find it later.

Anyway your not getting off the hook thats easy:fingerdrum: my grandad used to make his own in a tank, and I watch that Victorian gardening program on "Yesterday" n he makes his own, with treetreetreetree in a sack n soaking it!

So what do you do? how do you make it? what do I need? as I understand it I need..........

1) a tank
2) water
3) a sack of poo

Regards, Plant Potty:fingerdrum::fingerdrum::fingerdrum:

 

:D I'm putting the Vietnam Kitchen Garden series on here as each month comes up...

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/...30913-zigs-garden-countryside-tv-channel.html

I use a plastic dustbin, filled with water & then push as much vegetation into it as will fit.

Cover it up and pummel the stuff around every few days, it'll soon start to ferment as the anerobic bacteria starts to break it down. In a week or so it'll start to be like soup.

When I can, I add seaweed to it, hosed down first to get the salt off.

Nettles and comfrey are good things to include as the nettles have nitrogen and the comfrey is deep rooted and can bring up trace elements from deep down.

I use about 10% feed in water, think it might be too strong to use neat.

My uncle used to use sheep poo in a sack in a tank.

He told us it was sheep wee, never occured to us little ones how he'd go about collecting it:DOH::D

Oh, don't get any feed on your skin, otherwise you'll smell bad forever.

 

Ah, thank you I did an ebay search just now and found all sorts of tanks from a bid of £1, to buy now at £100, all will do the job, but it needs to look nice or be hidden in the garden, so I need to think about that for a while, I like the nettle Idea, and have some growing up the top of the garden:o, but not many, what size area of nettles would I need to feed my garden with them? its about (and off the top of my head so its a real quess).............cant work it out surely you can tell me as a percentage on your area? I'd like a wild area if it was usefull but managed, for insects n such, I'll look into that n think about it?

Plant Potty.

 

That would be an Ecumenical matter.

A good few square metres of nettles should do for a wildlife patch, cutting nettles back now encourages new growth which bugs need.

I seem to be able to make enough feed with all the weeding and spent plants.

When the feed is gone I had been just digging the sludge in, but i'm planning on compacting it in another drained container with a view of making a peat substitute that I can post to Kristen.

 

Thats an interesting prostect.

I could get a tank/bin and grow the nettles to hide it, some look nice in flower and could be a faiture not eye sore

I googled nettles and got thisthere are between 30-45 species of flowering plants of the genus Urtica in the family Urticaceae, with a cosmopolitan though mainly temperate distribution ... bla bla bla lol

can you use them all? I'm gonna go get one of mine and try id it, and see how many I have

Plant Potty.