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help! potato emergency!
"0tterbot" wrote in message
"Stuart Naylor" wrote in message On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:09:15 GMT, "0tterbot" wrote: small desiree patch: I have potatoes in flower at the moment and they do usually flower before they die off, but if you have kept the water up to them you may have missed seeing the flowers and they might be ready to harvest. Have a bit of a careful dig around near them and see what you can find in the ground. Wish you luck. ta for that :-) in the absence of any replies saying "yes, it's clearly potato-disease-from-hell", i decided to stop panicking :-) after i read your reply i had a think, & can recall a time when some of the plants had buds. then, i don't know what happened. it's quite possible the %#$!! grasshoppers ate the buds off, for all i know (they are voracious little blighters - they eat the tops off anything). i had another poke around, & there are some big taties down there. (and some little ones). i think it might be time to harvest soon, regardless of what happens next! You mentioned that the spuds had been in for 3 months. IIRC, Desiree has about a 120 day to harvest period?????? so it may be a bit early to think of harvesting them. Pehraps it might be worth checking out the days to harvest for the varieties and check you garden notebook to see when you did plant them to be surer. |
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