composting blight

[Ros]

I think that both the RHS and Garden Organic [and Monty Don] give advice as they don’t think that gardeners have any good practices. They tell us not to compost blighted foliage as blight can survive on live foliage of either potatoes or tomatoes – they think this is what we have in our compost heaps!! I had a similar thing with adding compost in the autumn. Garden Organic were telling us to add it in the Spring as nutrients are leached out in the winter rains. I asked at the AGM last year why this is their advice when people like Charles and Alys Fowler were advising putting it on in the Autumn. After evading the question a bit they finally admitted that well made compost is not water soluble and is fine put on in Autumn but we might not have well made compost!!! We are taken for mugs I think!