Thread: When can you start digging potatoes?
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Old 21-07-2009, 12:28 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Gordon H[_3_] Gordon H[_3_] is offline
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Default When can you start digging potatoes?
In message , Gopher
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In message , coeur
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wait 2 weeks approx AFTER top groth (hulm) wilts to allow
tubers to set and the skins harden slightly.

I believe the word is haulm .... i.e. the thing that wilts.

I'm struggling with "groth".
Gardeners' Broth?
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Gordon H
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