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After a difficult and late start in the veg plot, I have been feeling slightly smug that my potatoes (pink fir apple) didn't get blight at all - the first time in four seasons - and my tomatoes are only going down with it very slowly.
They were long composted by this time last year.
Today I went to have a chat with my jalapenos to see if they were going red yet, only to find that blight has swept through the chillies. Well, I assume that's what it is. Yellowing leaves with blotchy brown patches and the fruit developing brown shoulders and dropping. Drat and double drat
Only the pasilla seem ok. Both fruit!!
And the irony is that the tomatoes and potatoes are planted as far away from each other as rotation will allow, but the chillies are in the same bed as the spuds. Time to rethink the rotation again, methinks.
They were long composted by this time last year.Today I went to have a chat with my jalapenos to see if they were going red yet, only to find that blight has swept through the chillies. Well, I assume that's what it is. Yellowing leaves with blotchy brown patches and the fruit developing brown shoulders and dropping. Drat and double drat
Only the pasilla seem ok. Both fruit!!And the irony is that the tomatoes and potatoes are planted as far away from each other as rotation will allow, but the chillies are in the same bed as the spuds. Time to rethink the rotation again, methinks.
. It's always the way isn't it? I wouldn't mind so much if it was a bit more predictable, and I could arrange some devious alternatives and counter-measures!
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