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Bizarre weather + slow potato growing
stevek_bath
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in Fruit & veg
Afternoon folks,
Hope you're all keeping well.
We're having some particularly bizarre Spring weather here in the South West (yesterday varied between sunny and torrential hailstones in the afternoon). As a result, I'm struggling a little with potatoes... most of our new potatoes (1st and 2nd earlies) are really going slow at growing. They've been in the ground since mid-March but haven't yet grown much in the way of greenery and have only needed covering over with more soil once so far.
We've been getting some pretty frosty overnight temperatures even this week of 0-2 degrees quite regularly. Should I be concerned/giving up on them, or will they get a wriggle on once temperatures normalise a bit?
I've held off on planting my main crops - wondering if that's a mistake as well?
Steve
Hope you're all keeping well.
We're having some particularly bizarre Spring weather here in the South West (yesterday varied between sunny and torrential hailstones in the afternoon). As a result, I'm struggling a little with potatoes... most of our new potatoes (1st and 2nd earlies) are really going slow at growing. They've been in the ground since mid-March but haven't yet grown much in the way of greenery and have only needed covering over with more soil once so far.
We've been getting some pretty frosty overnight temperatures even this week of 0-2 degrees quite regularly. Should I be concerned/giving up on them, or will they get a wriggle on once temperatures normalise a bit?
I've held off on planting my main crops - wondering if that's a mistake as well?
Steve
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