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Harvesting potatoes - cut leaves before?

Xyz123Xyz123 Posts: 53
in Fruit & veg

Hi my early potatoes (stated late..) are ready to harvest. Foliage is turning yellow (plant is otherwise healthy and no sign of any other disease). I read somewhere that you should cut stems  just above ground level and leave it for extra week before harvesting potatoes. 

Any thoughts? Ta

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  • MuddyForkMuddyFork Posts: 435

    I just dig them up. Never had any problems

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    I think that you cut off the tops if leaving maincrop for harvesting late , say October, (to harden the skins)but presumably these are earlies and you will be using soon and not storing.  If so it makes no difference, just dig up one at a time as you use them.

  • michaelw1michaelw1 Posts: 34

    Just watched a TV show, the Beechgrove garden, that confirms what fidget bones has said. 

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

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