I am devastated. My seed potatoes which I thought were in a frost free place got attacked by frost over the weekend. It must have been the -9 we had on Saturday night but all my 10 variety’s growing for my potato experiment have all fallen fowl in some way. The worst of was my Ryecroft purple I lost 5 of them. All those that know about my potato trial will be aware that I had 9 different varieties from JBA seed potatoes all with just 10 tubers so when I lose 5 out of 10 that’s a big loss. All in all I lost 27 out of the 90 I had so I can still work with that but I am going to have to buy a few more to add to my stock so I have some substantial crops.
This is my 7th year growing potatoes and it’s
the first time I have ever had this problem. May be because I am using such old
variety’s they need more attention…oh well that’s gardening for you! You win
some and you lose some.
It has been very cold. It's perhaps worth covering them with newspaper if a frost is forecast again.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame - if you have been to Martyn's blog you'll know ours have just been taken back out of the garage. I'd take Jo's advice.
ReplyDeleteOh no!!! Though minus 9 is extremely cold. Mine are near the window in an unheated room (along with the ripening winter pears) so hopefully totally frost-free. At least you didn't lose the entirety of 1 variety.
ReplyDeleteOh no! That is not good at all!
ReplyDeleteWe keep ours in the house in a spare room so no frost damage for us!
Hope you still get a harvest come the time.
Martin
That happened to me last year when I kept them in the greenhouse - I didn't lose them all fortunately, this year they are in the kitchen, which is probably a bit too warm. There is still plenty of time to get some more chitted.
ReplyDeleteGosh, that's a shame. The weather has been extreme :/
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