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| Pruning Potatoe plants |
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| Asked on: 12/06/2008 |
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| I am growing my first crop of potatoes but in a bin.
I put a small amount of soil in the bin and then added the potatoes.
Each time the plants grew through the soil, I topped up the soil, recovering them, this was repeated until the bin was full.
Now, I have potatoe plants that are quite large, but i can't find any information on whether I am supposed to prune the plants, thus allowing all the energy to go back to the potatoes or if i am to leave them to get on with it?
Although there are some larger potatoes planted, essentially the potatoes are new potatoes, i don't know if that makes a differance? |
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| Replied: 20/05/2009 |
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| Rather late, I'm afraid, and not going to be of much help. Would love to know how you got on. Field grown potatoes don't get pruned; leaves only cut or sprayed off when potatoes are large enough and they are needed to be stored - said process makes the skins harden. If blight appears on the leaves then also cut them off, to stop tubers being infected. In a bin, presumably 1st in will want to be harvested first. How do you get to the bottom?
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