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    help! Potatoes!

    Been up to water my extra early potatoes which have been in the ground since march and they look as if they've died overnight and we're perfectly fine yesterday. They seem to have wilted and the leaves blackened. Is this frost or disease? How much will it have damaged the crop? My beans and tomatoes were out last night and seem unt
    ouched? Help...but of a novice
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    Sounds like frost to me. They should recover.
    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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    • #3
      Black is frost - where are you ?

      Your toms and beans might have been affected by the cold, but are taking longer to show symptoms
      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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      • #4
        Yep that be frost. It'll set em back but they should come back.

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        • #5
          Thanks guys...we' re in the midlands. Didn't notice frost when I got up but maybe it had cleared. I guess time will tell...

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          • #6
            Best to keep an eye on the forecast. If the air temperature hits 4C you are very likely to get a ground frost, and the forecast can be wrong by several degrees ... so prudent to "worry" if the forecast is 6C r maybe even 8C

            Cover the spud leaves with soil, grass clippings (but not if you have used weed & feed, or some other weed-control chemicals), straw, fleece, or even sheets of newspaper to keep the leaves away from the cold air.
            K's Garden blog the story of the creation of our garden

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            • #7
              Definately frost. We're in the midlands but seemed to escape it. The foliage will die back but resprout. Keep fleece handy for the next one.
              Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

              Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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