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sutton girl

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white crops
« on: October 05, 2007, 15:57:48 »
Hi do's an7yone know what whie crops are  it say on the allotment rule's that we cannot plant white crops in the same place the next year i dont know what the are do's anyone know please
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Re: white crops
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2007, 16:02:49 »
I 'THINK'  ??? WHITE CROPS MEAN GREEN MANURES...
ANYONE ELSE?
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Re: white crops
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2007, 16:14:46 »
Wouldn't  onions/leeks/garlic be more likely - to help prevent any build up of white rot / other allium diseases?
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Re: white crops
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2007, 16:28:15 »
My time to chuck MY spanner in the works...
I understood White Crops to be cereals; such as oats, barley, wheat, maize, etc.
 
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Re: white crops
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2007, 16:39:36 »
doh!  :-\ it was just a guess...
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Re: white crops
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2007, 17:48:05 »
Best ask whoever wrote the rules! ;D
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Re: white crops
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2007, 18:21:56 »
Quote from: RosieMcPosie on October 05, 2007, 16:39:36
doh!  :-\ it was just a guess...


Ditto  :D
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Re: white crops
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2007, 18:47:35 »
i've never heard of white crops.
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OllieC

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Re: white crops
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2007, 19:01:57 »
It's something they've made up. Or someone has something against white beetroot!
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Re: white crops
« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2007, 19:13:52 »
Under the recently introduced veg Discrimination Act it is now illegal to discriminate or segregate Vegetables on grounds of their colour. You have been warned.
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Re: white crops
« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2007, 19:23:24 »
Maybe it's all of this home improving that's leaked out onto gardens and it would just upset their inner chi / feng shui / sense of colour balance?

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sutton girl

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Re: white crops
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2007, 19:30:34 »
p/s that's whaty it says on our allotment agreement.
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Re: white crops
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2007, 21:45:19 »
ask the person who wrote the rules - I've never heard of white crops  ??? ??? ??? ???
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Re: white crops
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2007, 22:14:15 »
I tried google, and found nothing apart from clothes.
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Re: white crops
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2007, 22:18:11 »
I found this one

2. White Straw Crops
These are wheat, barley and oats; and are exhaustive cash crops which encourage grass weeds.  Continuous cropping of them encourages eye-spot, take-all and nematodes.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~ltu005/webcase/data/WheatBrae/ICM/02/00.html


but seems strange on an allotment!!
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sutton girl

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Re: white crops
« Reply #15 on: October 06, 2007, 07:46:39 »
Thank i think i understand is it a bit like crop rotation?
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