New to allotments - new here too - poorly spuds?

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Hi

Thanks for reading and the replies - have not got a piccie at the mo won't be able to get one for a few days but it does look very mcuh like this image I have found on the net



The leaves are still soft and healthy looking (just as I believe they should be) other than this yellowing.  I gave the pots a really good watering yesterday and we'll see what happens over the next couple of days.

Not sure that we have had a frost, the plot is 2 miles from home and we live on the coast and even in that distance we find the weather can be totally different.  Need to ask some of the others at the allotment if we've had frost.

Just hoping that these 2 problems we are experiencing do not affect our enthusiasm too much we are so loving our plot don't want poor yields or dead plants to put us off.

willnbirdie

Give them a belt of comfrey tea or seaweed fertilser, or anything really. It might help.

If you added plenty manure plus the growmore - don't see why, since you have much better stuff - that should be enough for them, depending on your soil, type and variety of potato, which is a bit of a trial and error.

My book recommends 15-20 lb manure per sq yard, that'll be about an inch layer on that area. If your soil is not too rich, you can chose to earth up once with some more muck, but overfeeding does have its bad sides. Go with what you have and see, don't think nutrient deficiencies would show this early and you should not have any by the sound of it, unless due to overfeeding.

Ground is plenty moist deep down, where their roots are, I would get evicted if watered potatoes at all, let alone now.

If you bought certified seed, virus is unlikely, especially as yet.

Frost, as Shaun says, most likely.

Hi

Thanks for all the advise a week ago - apparently there was a frost at the plot so I am now convinced that the yellowing is down to that - no more has appeared and the plants that have joined us above soil since the frost don't have any yellowing at all - cheers all

willnbirdie