- Location
- North Yorkshire
Usually grow Samson, can’t seem to get any Samson seed as no carry over from last year. What variety would you recommend instead?
Turnips, normal mustard and normal radish are actually all hosts for nematodes and they will multiple quite happily with these crops in the ground. It's why I stopped growing turnips ahead of beet because BCN were becoming more of a problem, I've since switched to multi resistant radish(class1) and in combination with resistant beet varieties I don't seem to be having problems.Stubble turnips will have no effect on BCN/FLN numbers.
In rotation, it could help reduce numbers being as it would be a break crop.
Before making my comment I spoke with a breeders rep & I passed on what was said.Turnips, normal mustard and normal radish are actually all hosts for nematodes and they will multiple quite happily with these crops in the ground. It's why I stopped growing turnips ahead of beet because BCN were becoming more of a problem, I've since switched to multi resistant radish(class1) and in combination with resistant beet varieties I don't seem to be having problems.
Now greening for bps had gone I'd like to go back to turnips for sheep and but I don't want to go back to square one again, I've been told some turnips are better to grow in this respect than others but I don't really buy into it.
I'd be interested to here your findings, I'm just repeating what I've been told over the yearsBefore making my comment I spoke with a breeders rep & I passed on what was said.
I'll do a bit more investigation tomorrow.
But sheep man does not want to graze radishI've not heard of a Turnip Veriatty that will reduce Nenitodes as
Terranova Raddish does ,it has been bred especially to reduce nematodes and is a high glucosinolate variety, required to produce high levels of isothiocyante for effective suppression of soil borne pests and diseases.
Then he may get a nematode invasion in the following crop ,But sheep man does not want to graze radish
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