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Title: white crops
Post by: sutton girl 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

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: RosieMcPosie on October 05, 2007, 16:02:49

I 'THINK' ??? WHITE CROPS MEAN GREEN MANURES...
ANYONE ELSE?

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: Barnowl 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?

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: Pumper 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.

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: RosieMcPosie on October 05, 2007, 16:39:36

doh! :-\ it was just a guess...

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: caroline7758 on October 05, 2007, 17:48:05

Best ask whoever wrote the rules! ;D

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: Barnowl 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

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: sarah on October 05, 2007, 18:47:35

i've never heard of white crops.

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: OllieC on October 05, 2007, 19:01:57

It's something they've made up. Or someone has something against white beetroot!

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: Eristic 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.

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: SnooziSuzi 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?

;D

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: sutton girl on October 05, 2007, 19:30:34

p/s that's whaty it says on our allotment agreement.

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: asbean on October 05, 2007, 21:45:19

ask the person who wrote the rules - I've never heard of white crops ??? ??? ??? ???

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on October 05, 2007, 22:14:15

I tried google, and found nothing apart from clothes.

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: silverbirch 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!!

Title: Re: white crops
Post by: sutton girl on October 06, 2007, 07:46:39

Thank i think i understand is it a bit like crop rotation?

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