weeds in potatoes

3759allen · « **on:** June 28, 2015, 21:32 »

how does people deal with weeds growing in there potato rows?

last year i mulched all the rows, no weeds but it did encourage a hell of a lot of foliage growth. this year i have not mulched them at all but do have a lot of weeds.

i'm thinking that i will cut the weed stems before they produce seeds but not pull them up as i don't want to disturb the soil and leave some potato's to go green.

thanks for any advice and views.

DD. · « **Reply #1 on:** June 28, 2015, 21:56 »

I gradually hill mine up through the growing season, little and often, maybe about 4 times. That keeps the weeds down.

RJR_38 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 28, 2015, 21:58 »

I leave them.... There are so few as the potatoes shade out most weeds on mine and they just die off. If there a couple that look like they might make it to seeding stage I chop them off.

peapod · « **Reply #3 on:** June 28, 2015, 22:16 »

Twice a week I feed. Once a week or so - hoe weed seedlings, water, slug pellet then hill up. No idea if this works or not but I usually do ok with my spuds.

Hopefully it'll be ok this year too (jinx!)

As an aside, I have used tomato feed (Wilkos) as I had a huge amount left (and couldnt be bothered dragging any other feed up to the plot on the bus), does anyone else us it for their spuds?

simonwatson · « **Reply #4 on:** June 29, 2015, 10:24 »

I pull out the most obvious weeds and leave smaller stuff knowing that the potatoes will shade them out eventually.

sunshineband · « **Reply #5 on:** June 29, 2015, 16:10 »

Quote from: simonwatson on June 29, 2015, 10:24

I pull out the most obvious weeds and leave smaller stuff knowing that the potatoes will shade them out eventually.

Snap! Anything that shows above the potato foliage has to go

It does depend on how big an area you devote to potatoes though... I have three beds 1.2m by 3.6m, so weeding is manageable

If you have several 25m rows, as some do on our site, I guess weeds just happen

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