Blight Warning

[Guest Connolly]

Conditions conducive to the spread of potato blight will affect parts of Munster, Connacht and Leinster during Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning. There will be opportunities for spraying on Friday.

Issued at 09:00 on 1-Jun-2012

[Lugh Ildánach 2,352]

Its pretty cold and stormy out there today, I don't think we have to worry about it today.

 

But we should get some spraying equipment set up down at the garden so that they can be sprayed at short notice. Blight won't wait for Sunday afternoons, my early potatoes at home are already pretty much wrecked by it, although they were a different variety of spud, and it appears from the health of the plants down in Charlo it would seem that growing spuds in the middle of the city helps prevent blight too as there's been very little sign of it so far.

[nico 2,875]

Its pretty cold and stormy out there today, I don't think we have to worry about it today.

 

But we should get some spraying equipment set up down at the garden so that they can be sprayed at short notice. Blight won't wait for Sunday afternoons, my early potatoes at home are already pretty much wrecked by it, although they were a different variety of spud, and it appears from the health of the plants down in Charlo it would seem that growing spuds in the middle of the city helps prevent blight too as there's been very little sign of it so far.

 

I was just looking down at the garden from my balcony, its like a jungle, the potatoes look huge!

 

[Guest Connolly]

We'll have to get down this coming Sunday!

[Dumbledore 154]

Have ye earthed them up yet?

[nico 2,875]

Have ye earthed them up yet?

 

We haven't a chara, I don't know if its too late now, our potatoe plants are a lot bigger than the ones in this video.

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-earth-up-potatoes

[Dumbledore 154]

We haven't a chara, I don't know if its too late now, our potatoe plants are a lot bigger than the ones in this video.

http://www.videojug....rth-up-potatoes

You'd better a chara. If they get greened, they can't be eaten.

[Lugh Ildánach 2,352]

There's no potatoes showing above the ground, or at least there weren't last week when we were down yet. The drills are dug pretty deep, but may be no harm to earth them up more than they are already.

[Dumbledore 154]

There's no potatoes showing above the ground, or at least there weren't last week when we were down yet. The drills are dug pretty deep, but may be no harm to earth them up more than they are already.

Usually it's done when the haulms are 20 -25 centimetres high. Since the potatoes themselves haven't come above ground yet, I can't see why you'd have any issues. However, you'll have to do it at sometime, so if the haulms are already that high you should think about earthing up sometime soon.

[Lugh Ildánach 2,352]

Earthing up, for those comrades who are not familiar with the term, is the process of building up the soil around the stems (or haulms) of the potatoes, to cover any potatoes that are exposed to sunlight (direct exposure to sunlight turns potatoes green and inedible), and giving you more of a yield.

 

It is not the process of digging the potatoes up out of the earth. Just as well I arrived in time, although I'm not complaining as we got to taste the first spuds that were "earthed up" by some over-enthusiastic comrades on Sunday

[nico 2,875]

Earthing up, for those comrades who are not familiar with the term, is the process of building up the soil around the stems (or haulms) of the potatoes, to cover any potatoes that are exposed to sunlight (direct exposure to sunlight turns potatoes green and inedible), and giving you more of a yield.

 

It is not the process of digging the potatoes up out of the earth. Just as well I arrived in time, although I'm not complaining as we got to taste the first spuds that were "earthed up" by some over-enthusiastic comrades on Sunday

 

Its just as well we waited for you otherwise we would have wen't ahead a dug up the lot