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not resolvedMy potatoes seem to have suffered in the frost. Strangely it's the smaller plants which fared worst. In my haste to protect them from future cooling I covered them again as far as the pots would allow.
However I now see that the advice is to remove damaged leaves before covering so my question is should I excavate and remove the damage or just leave them now and hope for the best?
@acsimpson
Spuds fairly tough except if potato blight hits.
Personally I would hope for the best
You could give them a bit of feed maybe? I have 3 lots in the ground and 1 lot in bags. They are not that far on apart from one of the bags so they seem OK
Actually re-checked and some of my Shaws are looking wabbit - surprised they were ok this morn as has been chilly
Thanks, Google seems to suggest keeping the tomato food for later so I assume general purpose fertiliser would be best for now.
@acsimpson, I would estimate Google will know much better than me. I add the tomato feed at the start which now seems stupid. Also this year I fear I flooded one trench.
Sharpo is one of the brands I am growing (Stalin’s potato) they grow anywhere in any dirt and start nice and small but if you leave them in keep growing all summer.
Other brands such as Golden Wonder a little more skittish. But basically tatties is about all I can grow. Have some leeks this year look ok so far and some rhubarb is doing well but two of my hearts are rubbish. (Always have been).
will plant the peony root today (unless anyone advises otherwise).
oddly, i do have some tomato food. didn't know i was supposed to use it on the potatoes. mine are only a few inches high. in a bag with new, good quality soil. so would be surprised if they needed feeding now?
“two of my hearts are rubbish“
Are you a Time Lord??
I have never fed my potatoes before other than adding some fresh compost to their pot soil each year. However I have a tub of growmore so added some this evening.
Runner beans are the one thing we manage to grow without fail each year. They taunt us in the spring by not appearing so we then plant more in propagators in the greenhouse. Just as they are ready to plant out the ones in the ground appear (however we never learn). We had good peas last year but I suspect it was due to all the rain.
My hostas have grown and are looking good.
This year they are on a sort of pedestal (Brick and a mono-block) looks ok but precarious
Also some coffee grinds round the inside of the rim
I am of course fooling myself
The slugs and snails just wait until the plant is nice and juicy before devouring it
I seem to finally be getting somewhere with seedlings, although looking at other people's photos, mine seem awfully tiny.
How do i get the memo to them that after two weeks, they reeeeeallly should have more than 2 leaves?
I don't dare put any out!
Depends what seeds they are.
Also, growing medium, temperature, water level, light level etc etc.
Still getting tomatoes germinating that I planted in January!
Last year I’m sure everything came up after a couple of weeks or so!
Growing some trees this year. Notable that some spend a long time growing roots before anything is visible above the surface.
@gembo - I like to grow large hostas. Last summer I went outside one calm, warm, damp evening at dusk and realised that in the quiet of the dusk the gentle scrunch scrunch I could hear was the snails devouring the largest.
Some lovely ideas in that article.
Cheers
Colin
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“If you plant a seed, you think in terms of weeks and months, not the 24-hour news cycle,” he says. “It’s a retreat and it is one of the best ways we have found to cope.”
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Indeed!
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