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.
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?
is that a fungus that travels through the soil?
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ReplyDeleteOK, so after googling "firkin white rot" thinking it was some dread disease I'd never heard of, I finally figured out what firkin means.
ReplyDeleteSo I feel firkin stupid and need to go to bed.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, nice one Tracy, I can just imagine you googling that. Yes Joan, it is indeed a soil born disease.
ReplyDeleteWell done Tracy! Excellent use of a newly learned word in a sentence!
ReplyDeletelol 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?
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.
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