July seems to be back into its warm and sunny mode after a rather poor Saturday. It’s turning out to be a rather pleasant month weather wise.
This year we started lifting our first early potatoes on 20 June 2014 as opposed to 08 July 2013 and 02 July 2012. Normally I lift a few early potatoes as soon as they've finished flowering and whilst they still have plenty of green haulms. This year some potatoes succumbed to blight early in June and when I dug up our first roots they had already lost all their foliage. Our remaining potatoes have been sprayed against blight a couple of times now with an application of Bordeaux Mix two weeks apart.
No more potatoes have been affected by blight but some have already died down naturally which I think is very early for us, some are just refusing to grow at all and some have produced some fantastic foliage and hopefully an excellent crop.
The video below is a tour around our plots to see how the potato crops are performing.
Everything's looking so green at your site, lovely. The potato plants look like they're a good size, hopefully you'll have good yields. Mine are quite small and not particularly impressive plants, but the potatoes have been lovely, I think I'm converted to growing them. The children have loved digging them up.
ReplyDeleteI love digging potatoes. You never really know from the tops what the potatoes underneath will be like. Ours have all been small too - not enough rain I suppose.
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