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canadamike
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Re: Late blight totally wiped me out
« Reply #90 on Sept 5, 2009, 10:42pm »

Not only one grungy, many ones, as now there will be a whole bunch of folks asking for them to others and growing them in their gardens...

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I garden mostly in heavy clay, but I have 1/2 of an acre of sandy soil added on top of it.

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Re: Late blight totally wiped me out
« Reply #91 on Sept 5, 2009, 10:53pm »

Regarding Lime,- the best possible lime that you can ever add to your garden and containers-is Dolomite lime, if you can get it ??, as not all places stock it, and when they do it is usually in small bags at that, but it is marvelous for stopping B.E.R in your garden provided you dig it in early Jan/Feb time.

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Re: Late blight totally wiped me out
« Reply #92 on Sept 6, 2009, 1:13pm »

We get dolomite lime pretty easy around here. At the "big box" store it's in 40 lb bags for less than $3 each. Alternatively, it can be purchased by "scoops" and tons from ag stores who will come and spread it for you as part of the delivery service. I'm of the opinion that the lime we added to this plot is the ONLY reason we got any tomatoes at all this year! But heck, with late blight, BER is sort of immaterial! ::sigh::

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Jo - A developing farmer based on Bible teachings. Diversity, research, and chemical independence are key. Our top soil is about 12 to 18 inches of depleted sandy loam. Under that is a layer of light colored clay. Our sons will soon have more information as they learn to dig deeper and deeper holes. www.TrulyThankful.typepad.com

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Re: Late blight totally wiped me out
« Reply #93 on Sept 6, 2009, 3:08pm »

Ber problems can easily be solved with a lil' watering of diluted milk...around here, in the old days, spoiled milk from dairy farmers always ended up in the tomato patch...

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Re: Late blight totally wiped me out
« Reply #94 on Sept 6, 2009, 5:36pm »

Really? now that IS interesting Mike. We put all our spoiled food into the TP. Milk seldom gets the opportunity to spoil in our house though... Any idea what it does to the soil?

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Re: Late blight totally wiped me out
« Reply #95 on Sept 6, 2009, 10:20pm »

Here are some pictures of Tom's taters in my garden, taken today september 6 2009, long after the apparition of blight around here. I will post a few of them plant pictures, without saying too much, Tom already knows which is which, nobody else but him and I could otherwise, but they were taken today and prove that the plants are well behaving. I lost my battery power for the 5th one, but have faith, it is true, and on top of that I would add that GRANOLA is showing SOME tolerance, the plants are very affected but survive here.

The actual yield is roughly the equivalent of a commercial one, about 1.5 pound a foot, nothing compared to my usual yield, not even remotely so, about one third or less of it, please note I love to grow them in freshly turned ground, the more clover the better. I still haven't read much about clover importance in potato growing. I read about freshly turned ground being the best, I witnessed it with experience, but who is talking about clover??? I have seen the difference in the health and production of the plants so much. AQnyway, we will know much when I come back from Europe, this is a new field and these are new potato varieties for the most,

One ''dipoid'' ( according to Tom who apparently can recognize them

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The tater..note it is small, they call it late blight....for late potatoes... I did not taste that one, I had to clean it in some stale water and did not feel I needed any disease...

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A bigger earlier tater with blue flesh, absolutely delicious, the plant shows some redishness at the end of only a few leaves,I saw a couple of petioles dried, but that is it, so small a damage it could be something else, almost invisible but looks healthy. If it was not for late blight all around I would not even have noticed.

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The tuber, really delicious and bigger, hence earlier than a really late tater:

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Here is a white flesh one, small tuber, hence late tubering, but a healthy plant:

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The tuber:

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Here is a fantastic one, with so much dry matter you can't easily chew on it raw, it is almost like eating a rock. So much so it is not even a pleasing experience for your teeths to eat it raw. Please do not translate that to cooked results.

For newbies, more dry matter can mean more true nutrition...more potato and less water. And it is also the biggest tuber I got from the late ones at the moment ( earlier in the late ones ), so some hope is in order. Please note it has been a terribly wet summer after the June draught, July1 it started raining for 50 days or so, leave out 4 in the lot, and raining a lot. Many potato cultivar busted in the ground, exploding like cherry tomatoes.

The healthy plant:

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The tuber I can't easily chew on:

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This is as much as I can say before leaving for Europe I guess, but , all of you, these pictures are yours and use them liberaly, they mean a single stubborn man and a few friends can change the world...

Michel

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