Wormwood after blight

General tips / questions on seeding & planting

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Gwen
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I have several very large wormwood plants which have to be cut down later in the year. One year I just put them over the potato rows where I had cut off the tops of blighted potatoes because I was too lazy to do anything else at the time. One row of potatoes didn't get any, and I found that that row did suffer some tuber blight, whereas the other rows where there was the wormwood on top, didn't. It's an experiment worth trying if you have wormwood. I presume some of the chemicals from the wormwood gets washed into the ground and does 'something'. If wormwood was available in quantity earlier in the year, I would try some on the rows whilst the haulms were yet young.