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This looks more like natural senesence than blight (although it is the blight season)- consider the British Potato Councils problem pages: http://www.potato.org.uk/department/knowledge_transfer/pests_and_diseases/ref.html?item=12 Boggy
This is called 'running off' and research at East Malling. This work was done by the RHS's own plant physiologist, Tijana Blanusa, before she joined the Society, so you could ask her for how to get better results, hang on, she has put it on the RHS website: http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0606/cherrydrop.asp Bogweevil
I liked it a lot - it is very funny, surreal even, and a lot more interesting that yet another iteration of the usual small garden themes. Boggy
It is often very profitable to drop a few plants each year from your catalogue and then re-introduce them later as 'new' to help fill the 'new introductions' part of the catalogue. It can be hard to find enough genuinely new plants...
Ah if only it were so. You should be aware that green manures do not add organic matter to the soil as they are mostly water and indeed by enhancing soil microbe action green manures can actually deplete soil organic matter. Neither do they add much nitrogen in winter as the nitrogen fixing bacteria need warmth and plenty of photosynthesised materials to function. Therefore vetches sown in autumn will make little difference. Grown all summer they might well add a useful amount. However if you are going to grow green manures in summer some might say that you might as well grow something useful and compost the crop residues and thus get a useful crop and much of the benefit of green manuring. What autumn sown green manures will do is scavenge soluble soil nutrients in autumn and hold them to be released in spring, so that they are not washed out by winter rains. Ones dug in during autumn and winter can help make soil more workeable in spring, but they can also provide food and shelter for slugs. Boggy