Why do potatoes you plant get blight and self setters do not.
Maybe they become resistant...you should breed a few of em.
Sarpo Kinson.....has a certain ring to it dontcha think? ;)
every plant that sows itself grows better and if you try and shift them they seem to curl up and dye. i am amazed how you can never tell how big a carrot is by the top of it1 i love pulling them.you get short stumpy ones that you think will be huge and then a skinny toped one that just goes on and on ::)
marg
just a thought i wonder what would happen if a few were planted now as if they were lost ones :-\
Self setters harbour blight.. they come up later and miss the most infectious bits but carry small amounts forward...
:-\
I was clearing out a bed today and found a whole unbroken Hens egg, almost totally buried in the soil.... how?
???
Fox saddad?
My lottie amazes me. I chuck a handful of dried little specks of seed into my stoney, clay ridden soil, it is then parched during spring and washed away during the summer, and yet it grows and grows and rewards me with lashings of amazing fruits and veggies. I have a mole, several voles, a rat, a fox, newts, grass snakes, an adder, slow worms everywhere, muntac deer, a scarecrow which only scares me, butterflies, birds and bees. It is my own personal zoo and restaurant. And to top it all, this shy loner whose only friends are in cyber space has gone on to make an ecclectic collection of allotment chums in the flesh. My lottie is a joy, a joy I can share around and make other people happy.