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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: tim on November 03, 2005, 11:03:24

Title: Very disappointed.
Post by: tim on November 03, 2005, 11:03:24
White rot on leeks in a new raised bed.

Is there no justice?
Title: Re: Very disappointed.
Post by: Jill on November 03, 2005, 12:11:54
Oh Tim that's such bad news.  And yes, I think you're right - not at all fair.  Any salvageable?
Title: Re: Very disappointed.
Post by: tim on November 03, 2005, 13:13:27
Yes, most - but it doesn't bode well?
Title: Re: Very disappointed.
Post by: moonbells on November 03, 2005, 14:09:49
Oh no. And you were so careful to keep tools and boots etc separate.

:(

moonbells
Title: Re: Very disappointed.
Post by: Doris_Pinks on November 03, 2005, 14:51:35
Oh no Tim, that certainly does not bode well.  You must be very unhappy.
Do you just have the one raised bed or did you build 2?
Title: Re: Very disappointed.
Post by: Mrs Ava on November 03, 2005, 17:45:10
What a nerve!  And I thought leeks were a safer bet than onions!  I do loose a few, but out of a hundred, may only loose a couple to the dreaded rot.  Have planted my hunions on plot number two this year to see if I have any better luck over there....but of course I walk from one plot to the other, so the rot will have travelled.  Hey ho.

Looks like you are going to have to raise the beds even higher Tim!
Title: Re: Very disappointed.
Post by: undercarriage plan on November 03, 2005, 18:08:26
Aww Tim, so sorry, have fingers crossed for you that it doesn't spread.. :-[
Lottie
Title: Re: Very disappointed.
Post by: tim on November 03, 2005, 18:10:10
DP - I had 4 - but, like an idiot, because they were only 4'x4', I grew garlic in one, leeks in another & spring onions in another. Hoist by my own whatsit!

So  just added 3  more - 6'x3'.
Title: Re: Very disappointed.
Post by: Doris_Pinks on November 03, 2005, 21:44:52
Hopefully you will get a few rot free, thats what I am hoping anyway!
Title: Re: Very disappointed.
Post by: redimp on November 03, 2005, 23:37:57
Sorry Tim  :( and you are right, there is no justice  >:( ??? >:(.