was one of my strategies to help the quality of the soil on No 16, especially since I had a limitless supply of peelings. It seems to have worked, as the soil is much better than a year ago, but I am getting several crops of rogue potatoes that have sprouted from peelings that chitted and grew. These rogue spuds all seem prone to blight. Beware.
And don’t take up the offer of free manure if it’s not well rotted, or you will get a fantastic free crop of weeds too.
Sorry that this is probably not the best place for this but I couldn’t find a contact address.
I’m sure you must be aware of the problems experienced by allotment holders last year due to the use of manure contaminated by a persistent herbicide called aminopyralid. Information has been collated about this problem from the links on this page http://www.glallotments.btik.com/p_Contaminated_Manure.ikml
Just to update on the latest re aminopyralid contamination in case you would like to provide updates on your website or to allotment holders in your area.
The latest information re manure contamination is posted on my website here http://www.glallotments.btik.com/p_herbicide_latest.ikml
I have also sent out a email for circulation by everyone I know that has been affected which is here http://www.glallotments.btik.com/attachments/contaminated_manure_alert.pdf which you may find useful to circulate to allotment holders in your area.
It is particularly important that gardeners be aware of the need for caution when obtaining manure in light of the fact that the government are now considering reinstating the licence that was temporarily suspended last year. As this is a concern to many gardeners you may wish to publicise an a epetition that has been started here http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/aminopyralidban/ The petition closes on 23 October so we need a big urgent push to increase the number of signatures.
I am posting updates as I get them on my blog http://glallotments.blogspot.com/ just on case you want to keep a watching brief.