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, but the new site I'm on has suffered from it terribly.A blight warning - sometimes called the Smith Period - occurs when there have been two consecutive days with temperatures of at least 10? and relative humidity has been above 90%.I try to grow vegetables

the greenhouse at home rather than on the allotment, because in the growing season you really have to be able to attend to seedlings and plants twice a day. For me, it was also important to mix edible with ornamental plants at home. I wanted to have things like

When I first started growing shallots I did so on the advice of Sam, on our allotment (aged 90 he was still tending his plot twice a day). He told me to plant shallots on the shortest day and harvest them on the longest. I'm a bit more haphazard