Poor yield of early potatoes

green fingers · « **on:** June 22, 2008, 07:22 »

Last year - when first year on the plot we had a wonderful crop of early potatoes, this year , so far a poor yield. My lottie neighbour said we should not have put manure in the trench - is this right?

DD. · « **Reply #1 on:** June 22, 2008, 07:33 »

That's you, me and countless others that have got it wrong then. Mine are fine.

Contact with manure increases the chance of potato scab but should not be detrimental to the crop.

I can't say why your yield is down, but I'm pretty sure it's not because you fed them!

shaun · « **Reply #2 on:** June 22, 2008, 08:08 »

give them a bit longer.

lucywil · « **Reply #3 on:** June 22, 2008, 09:12 »

its the same here, have only dug one row up though, but some other people on our allotments have also had low yields compared to last year, we are just gonna leave them a bit longer

Rampant_Weasel · « **Reply #4 on:** June 22, 2008, 13:58 »

same here and i did the same as i did last year, everyones potatoes round here seem to be big on foliage and small on tubers

Bigbadfrankie · « **Reply #5 on:** June 22, 2008, 14:02 »

the ground has been cold so far this year. you will be lucky to get away with just a bad spud crop :roll:

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