Tasty blight resistant varieties
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tremone
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Tasty blight resistant varieties
After my earlies & mains suffering from blight this year can anyone recommend blight resistant varieties in both earlies & maincrops for next year.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
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hedgewizard
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The catalogues will tell you what has some resistance and what hasn't, but I called a friend who grows commercially after this year's disaster, and asked her which varieties had escaped the blight.
"None of them," she said. "Not even the newest resistant varieties from the States."
She said that conditions this year were just *perfect* for blight, so your only hope was avoidance. She's my gardening guru, and her parting comment was "don't try to learn anything from this year".
"None of them," she said. "Not even the newest resistant varieties from the States."
She said that conditions this year were just *perfect* for blight, so your only hope was avoidance. She's my gardening guru, and her parting comment was "don't try to learn anything from this year".
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