A bit of a day on the allotment and a garden disastor!
Posted 03-19-2008 at 06:26 AM by weedme
It started out ok, i have re desgined it again and again!
I have now planted up my first earlies back breaking work i dont mind saying!! This year i am going to try laying down a manure mix of horse and alpaca poop!! it was well watered in and covered! I will let you know in due course of the progress!!
My oinon and shallot sets are now in as well, and garlic is growing ike a good 'un!
My green pepper is now fruiting in the greenhouse (one that i rescued from the allotment when we had our first fosts) so am well pleased with that!
All my seedlings are doing well except fo the leeks!!!! what am i doing wrong??well i dont know, i do everything they say on the packet and they start well, then just fall over and die! its quite sad really.
TIP : dont plant foxgloves any where near chickens!!!! it can kill them..... i found this out with a near fatal encounter when my chciken "Speckels" decided it was fair game to eat mams flowers...... it gave her hallocinations and made her very sleepy as it slows the heart, (dont know what it does in humans, dont want to find out!) but as luck would have it she is fine again and laying eggs ten to the dozen! haha. I have now moved the foxgloves and put them up the allotment away from the kids!! just in case!
I have planted up some mammoth pumpkin seeds allthough its probably too early but hey! live and learn.
XX weedme XX
I have now planted up my first earlies back breaking work i dont mind saying!! This year i am going to try laying down a manure mix of horse and alpaca poop!! it was well watered in and covered! I will let you know in due course of the progress!!
My oinon and shallot sets are now in as well, and garlic is growing ike a good 'un!
My green pepper is now fruiting in the greenhouse (one that i rescued from the allotment when we had our first fosts) so am well pleased with that!
All my seedlings are doing well except fo the leeks!!!! what am i doing wrong??well i dont know, i do everything they say on the packet and they start well, then just fall over and die! its quite sad really.
TIP : dont plant foxgloves any where near chickens!!!! it can kill them..... i found this out with a near fatal encounter when my chciken "Speckels" decided it was fair game to eat mams flowers...... it gave her hallocinations and made her very sleepy as it slows the heart, (dont know what it does in humans, dont want to find out!) but as luck would have it she is fine again and laying eggs ten to the dozen! haha. I have now moved the foxgloves and put them up the allotment away from the kids!! just in case!
I have planted up some mammoth pumpkin seeds allthough its probably too early but hey! live and learn.
XX weedme XX
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Hello Weedme. I am not sure on your leeks. But I had the same thing happen with crookneck yellow squash. Sometimes they just get damp off. Maybe it is something underground killing them. Maybe it is this.
V PURPLE BLOTCH OF ONION: Gardeners with a love of onions have seen a common disease developing over the past week or two. Purple blotch, a disease caused by an Alternaria fungus, has been seen causing dieback of the onion tops. Purple blotch can also affect garlic and leeks. The disease is expressed as dark spots on the leaves that may show a target pattern. Sometimes, if the day and night temperatures are not far apart, the ring pattern may not be as obvious. As the spots grow larger, they develop a brownish to purple color. The leaves will yellow above the spots and as the spots girdle the leaves, the leaf will die back above that point. Purple blotch is a common disease of onions in South Dakota during periods of high temperatures and very high humidity. In years with those conditions it is probably even more common than Botrytis diseases. Purple blotch will be more severe as the season progresses and leaves age. |
 
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