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We've not been lucky this year with fungi this year.
We lost all of our potatoes to blight quite early in the year, and now the onions are just about ready we've found some have white rot. The rot doesn't seem extremely severe; a white foamy fuzz on the bottoms of a few onions, with the first layer of onion partially eaten through.
My grandad and google seem very doom and gloom about the situation suggesting there is nothing I can do and that it will stay in the ground for decades.
Please tell me they're wrong
Has anyone else had these problems and how have you dealt with them?
I read somewhere a bonfire will kill off fungus spores. It makes sense in theory but I'm not convinced the intense heat will penetrate far enough into the soil. (or that I could avoid burning down the shed)
Some where else advised covering the area with a plastic liner and building a raised bed over the top with fresh soil. Again I'm not convinced: we used those plastic liners underneath the driveway and patio and weeds have still found their way through.
So yes; help, advice and you're experiences really valued.
We lost all of our potatoes to blight quite early in the year, and now the onions are just about ready we've found some have white rot. The rot doesn't seem extremely severe; a white foamy fuzz on the bottoms of a few onions, with the first layer of onion partially eaten through.
My grandad and google seem very doom and gloom about the situation suggesting there is nothing I can do and that it will stay in the ground for decades.
Please tell me they're wrong
Has anyone else had these problems and how have you dealt with them?
I read somewhere a bonfire will kill off fungus spores. It makes sense in theory but I'm not convinced the intense heat will penetrate far enough into the soil. (or that I could avoid burning down the shed)
Some where else advised covering the area with a plastic liner and building a raised bed over the top with fresh soil. Again I'm not convinced: we used those plastic liners underneath the driveway and patio and weeds have still found their way through.
So yes; help, advice and you're experiences really valued.
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