Originally Posted by slumlord
Originally Posted by Diesel
The reason I use individual circular cages is so I can move the cages each year and keep a substantial distance between each one. The blight can spread too easily in tight spacing.

I got blight bad for a couple years in a row with some Bradley pinks

I pulled all my cages one fall and while I was BBQ’ing about 15 butts, I slow-rolled all my cages through a scattered bed of hickory slab coals on the ground.

I switched up varieties also. Not sure if helped anything but I had a hunch those rusty cages might be holding virus too.

I have used these cages for years. I burn them every fall when i put them up. I’ve rolled them in a fire and also used a weed burner when I didn’t have so many. I think this is an important step in disease prevention, along with rotating areas of the garden in which they are grown.

Buy once, cry once.