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How do other grapes get rid of potato haulms? I have just harvested 12 plants as I needed the space for follow on crops, and although the leaves look healthy enough, I wondered if it was sensible to put them on the compost heap or whether it's better to get rid another way. Any advice greatly appreciated. I seem tor remember reading on another thread that someone leaving a heap of rotting potato haulms on an allotment could have caused an outbreak of blight. Would hate to be responsible for that!

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Bonnie Rait

The best way is to put them to dry in the sun then burn them.OR put them in your council green bin,they seem to have some alchemy that can turn anything organic into good compost.

If they are healthy they are a great addition to the compost bin. If diseased, either dry out and burn or put in the council bin (They get all my bindweed - I hope noone from the Council reads these posts)

They get my mare's tail too RL. With pots I only compost if I am 100% sure they are ok. If in doubt burn or bin.

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Earthbabe
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I can never decide what to do with them - i don't really want to compost them as then i'll get potatoes popping up in the compost bin (made that mistake before !!). But equally i never have enough bags to take them home for the council bin! (bags too full of crops, yum yum!)

its a dilemma alright!

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well i make my compost in as near a airproof compost bin as posible even covering the top with thick nylon sheet the compost gets hotter that way i know the purist's say you need some air but i find the oposite works for me jacob

Given the sheer amount of potato haulms I will have this year, they shall get a newly constructed compost bin all to themselves.
I know the commercial seed potato growers up here burn the haulms off with acid (sulphuric I think) but that's just not an option that is open to me.

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