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I haven’t managed to get to RHS Wisley very often this summer – and forgot to take my camera when I did. So didn’t get any shots of the Model Vegetable Garden in full swing. I did however get some pictures today which I will post next week. It was all very tail end. Sort of streamers strewn across the floor and empty bottles rolling under the table kind of thing. Not that it was messy, far from it. But when trees are showcasing their ‘look-at-me’ autumnal hues and bushes are laden with glinting berries – the veg patch is bound to look a bit drab and ‘yesterday’s thing’ in comparison.
But what I did find interesting was that blight had not affected the tomatoes plants – and that they had used Bordeaux Mix. I know it’s not for everyone – but if you do use it and are wondering what to use when it gets discontinued – then the RHS seem to be recommending Bayer’s Fruit and Vegetable Disease Control as a replacement product.
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Fortunately, if you can obtain calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) and copper (II) sulphate, it would be easy to prepare Bordeaux Mix at home. I’d rather do that than trust a corporation with its fingers in the G.M. pie.
My veg patches are looking very drab too now, next to my grapevine’s deep red autumn foliage, but I’m still picking tomatoes!
Thank you for the link – very interesting read. I think I knew about the wine connection but it was good to be reminded – in my world perspective I think “wine blight” and tomato blight would come a pretty close first and second place for “bad things” to happen to “good plants”.
And I know it’s wrong to laugh – but the turning people blue bit did make me! It was something to do with a parakeet crossed with a smurf in my mind!