Sunday 13 June 2010

White rot

The firkin white rot has nobbled most of my garlic now; I've got about seven unaffected plants left which I'm hoping is a lucky number. Not that I'm not holding my breath.

7 comments:

Joan said...

is that a fungus that travels through the soil?

frazzledsugarplummum said...

Yikes...

Tracy Zhu said...

OK, so after googling "firkin white rot" thinking it was some dread disease I'd never heard of, I finally figured out what firkin means.

Tracy Zhu said...

So I feel firkin stupid and need to go to bed.

Simon said...

Ha ha, nice one Tracy, I can just imagine you googling that. Yes Joan, it is indeed a soil born disease.

Joan said...

Well done Tracy! Excellent use of a newly learned word in a sentence!
lol You crack me up.

So Simon, did the fungus reach the other garlics...and you'll probably relocate next years garlic to different location? Is it known how long the disease will live on in the soil?

Simon said...

Yep, I lost them all in the end. I will need to plant them somewhere else next year as it's reckoned white rot stays in the soil for at least 8 years.