[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

Evening all, I have unwanted spuds appearing next to and through where I planted my rhubarb.

Can I just hoe them off, or will it take more to defeat them?

[snowdrops]

Thems be volunteers. Are you able to gently furtle around & get the seed potato out otherwise just pull off the shoot until it stops shooting.

[fatcat1955]

They will keep sending shoot's up , as they can harbour over wintering blight spores i would reall try digging them up.

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

I dont think I can, as I also have a blueberry plant and blackcurrant bush in the same area now.....

How annoying!!

[finleyfreyaseth]

i got them growin in my compost heap theres one even growin out the front 4ft deep poppin through  small gap in the front ,we go through a sac of spuds every 6wks and used throw all my peelins on there avin second thoughts now

[JayG]

I dont think I can, as I also have a blueberry plant and blackcurrant bush in the same area now.....

How annoying!!

Just pull out or hoe off the shoots as best you can if you can't get down to the tuber - don't worry about it, it happens to most people who've grown spuds and no-one's been locked up for starting a UK blight epidemic as far as I know! 

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

Yeah, I'll just keep doing that Jay.

I guess they have to die eventually.

[DD.]

Try painting a bit of glyphosate onto the shoots - unless you're vehemently opposed to using it!

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

I dont mind using it, im just worried about contamination on to neighbouring plants?

[DD.]

It won't happen.

What you paint/spray on is only absorbed by the plant itself.

I can spot weed the lawn with it without killing any grass.

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

OK, I have Resolva, which is Westlands version of Glyphosate I believe, or it's GLY based, anyhow.

Would this be the same, and become redundant upon touching the soil?

[Beetroot queen]

We have spuds popping up in a bed we haven't used for spuds since 2009 how does that happen 

We have dug that bed more times than I have made my own so how can you miss them.

Mind you 2009 was the year hubby put my spuds in some 4 foot deep, they showed their faces eventually lol

His answer was the deeper the more potatoes 

[simonwatson]

I had a similar problem with Jerusalem Artichokes under my new asparagus bed last year. If you keep pulling the shoots they get the idea eventually. There's only so much energy in the tubers.

[DD.]

OK, I have Resolva, which is Westlands version of Glyphosate I believe, or it's GLY based, anyhow.

Would this be the same, and become redundant upon touching the soil?

That's what I use.

[Annen]

My potatoes failed completely last year because of the cold and wet, but they've got the cheek to have started coming up now!  in the middle of my garlic!