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    My (usually reliable) parsnips have something.

    The leaves are dying back (on otherwise green stalks) with a grey band where they are dying off). Any ideas?

  • #2
    A grey band sounds like some sort of fungal infection. Could it be powdery mildew? - there is a strain of this which affects carrots and parsnips.

    Unless all leaves are affected I would be inclined to remove any showing signs of disease.
    A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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    • #3
      that would make sense.

      what a bloomin' year, getting damp-related diseases after drought...

      Presumably the main preventative action is rotation and cleaning the frames/nets?

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      • #4
        I would think so - and avoid planting other umbelliferae (carrots, fennel, celery, celeriac, parsley) in that bed for a year or 2. That is good practise anyway if you can manage it.
        A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Penellype View Post
          I would think so - and avoid planting other umbelliferae (carrots, fennel, celery, celeriac, parsley) in that bed for a year or 2. That is good practise anyway if you can manage it.
          I can be absolutely sure that all bar carrots, parsnips and fennel will not be grown there at all. I rotate anyway, so I just need to make a note for this bed not to have those in for 2 years.

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          • #6
            presumably it won't affect the parsnips themselves?
            (other than stop them growing as big as they might)

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