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gray1720:
You only need to put your first home-grown cauli into salt water to realise why pesticides were adapted so readily!
Obelixx:
I know, and I don't get decent firm curds either so clearly need to improve my techniques - or just keep buying the organic ones. Don't eat many anyway.
Tee Gee:
--- Quote ---I don't get decent firm curds
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In general terms, there are two things that I found to be essential:
1)The Variety
2) The firmness of the soil they are being planted in!
I never dug the soil just prior to planting, I preferred to do my soil preparation in the autumn, this way I found my light soil firmed up nicely over the winter months, and I only needed to form a hole where each plant was planted.
I usually used a bulb planter to do this.
If I were planting out late plantings eg Autumn & Spring cropping varieties as a follow-on crop, I would just tidy up the surface of the bed rake in a fertiliser and plant out as described before!
oops! I used more than one line for my answer....Sorry! :angel11:
Beersmith:
--- Quote from: Obelixx on June 08, 2021, 13:20:28 ---There were also five long rows of potatoes and 3 of shallots, all looking strong and healthy but all a very strange bright blue.
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Sounds like Bordeaux mixture. There was a recent topic where it was discussed at some length. Effective against fungal diseases. It is not a product I use myself, but there were good arguments that used with care and in moderation it was not nearly as harmful as many modern agro chemicals.
Obelixx:
Nothing moderate about the intensity of blue powder on these plants! Something I've seen sold here is a concoction of horsetail to dilute and use as a fungicide.
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