have been travelling around in Herts and Kent and noticed lots of Horse chestnuts with what appears to be rusty leaves. is there a pest problem - are we going to lose our conker trees? Any ideas please.
Can anyone help solve this: I found two of, what I can only say looked like small green tomatoes growing on my potato plants, when i cut one opened it was a greenish white colour with white tiny seeds in a kind of half moon shape at the bottom. Any advice please.
Mary - Them green tomatoe things growing on your poatoe plant are a new breed of potatoe plant, i read anarticle on tmen a while back. Im not sure if the tomatoes them selves are edible, actually i doubt they will be but it shouldnt affect you poatoes at all. Sorry but i cant for the life in me remember what the name of the potatoe plant is, sorry. Hopw this helps.
I had what I think was scab on my Nicola potatoes this year. They will all be peeled before eating as it's really quite unsettling to see it! The Kestrel were almost totally unblemished. I will definitely plant Kestrel again.
Ants in the compost. Try ground cinnamon. Sprinkle it around the area covering the top and encircling. The ants will scram and not cross the barrier.
Potato question: Anyone know the dates to harvest potatoes by the signs in Aug 2009? It's been wet and I need to get them in but would like to do it according to the signs. I didn't one year and they all rotted in about 3 days even though they looked great at harvest. It's made me a believer in harvesting them by the sign.
I planted my potatoes in old dustbins and the proper containers early in the year and followed the instruction for container growing but although there was plenty of leaf there were only three tiny potatoes in the small bag and none at all in the dustbins although have had fair result other year. Any advice for future?
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong with potatoes grown in bags… every year they start well, lovely stalks & leaves but then they seem to be struck with something. The leaves and stalks go brown and shrivle. Slugs & snails also seems to have a ball in the bags. I keep them well watered and generally look after them and this year tried Charlotte, Sharpes Express and Vivaldi but all suffered the same fate. I do get potatoes but not enought to make it worth while so what is the problem
Hi Blackdog, I think you may have potatoe blight. I had that problem last year and lost all my potatoes. I am going to give them one final try next year
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Potato question: Anyone know the dates to harvest potatoes by the signs in Aug 2009? It's been wet and I need to get them in but would like to do it according to the signs. I didn't one year and they all rotted in about 3 days even though they looked great at harvest. It's made me a believer in harvesting them by the sign.
I keep them well watered and generally look after them and this year tried Charlotte, Sharpes Express and Vivaldi but all suffered the same fate. I do get potatoes but not enought to make it worth while so what is the problem