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Is it ok to put my keeled over potato haulms in the composter?
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Sure, as long as they aren't blightey. I hot compost, which kills everything like fungus and seeds so I put all my organic waste in together with 50% cardboard.Last edited by Richard Eldritch; 15-07-2014, 04:28 PM.Hussar! -
Make sure there are no teeny spuds still attached Sally.sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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actually you can compost blighted foliage, because the spores can't survive on dead material.Originally posted by Richard Eldritch View PostAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Good advice from BM - I used some home made compost a couple of years ago out of which popped loads of potato plants. Same applied to tomato plants as well, so i don't compost tomatoes any more!Granny on the Game in SheffieldComment
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Good call Flo, I was picking Tomato seedlings out of by Brassica bed. The weird thing is the beds are 100% horse manure from the local stables..........guess they must have been feeding the horses Tomatoes..........
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You obviously never visited a sewage works back in the 50s/60s toms growing every where. We won't go into where the seeds came from shall we.Potty by name Potty by nature.
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Umm, I have what must be half a dozen tomatoes coming out of each leek hole - but them I do compost everything. Secateurs, knives, copper rings ....Last edited by PyreneesPlot; 16-07-2014, 10:54 AM.Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/Comment
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Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
It is some time since I researched blight but I seem to remember blight (probably late blight that I did most research on) as being a water mould that had male, female and asexual types. I thought that one of the types could go dormant in or on soil without living matter present and survive though mild winters.
I seem to remember properly composting infected material at high heat levels was ok for blighted material and heavy frosts/freezing of ground would kill mould spores in the ground.
Personally I have only had "real" blight on a couple of occasions but since my composting abilities are suspect and I rarely get a heap smoulderingly hot I dumped that material onto the council.
Any other outdoor diseases I ignore and compost that material.
My greenhouse tomatoes have never had blight but they often get botrytis and I don't like to compost that material either.The proof of the growing is in the eating.
Leave Rotten Fruit.
Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potasium - potash.
Autant de têtes, autant d'avis!!!!!
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