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Scorched potato plants. Can they recover?
Hello,
Complete newbie here. For the first time in my adult life I have a small garden to grow veg but it is almost entirely paved so I'm restricted to containers. I planted maincrop potatoes in early march in bags (salad blue and pink fir apples). I'm just north of London. They had been going big guns with a lot of thick foliage and had just finished flowering.
The recent severe heat coupled with travel has left them a little scorched. Several dead or discolored branches but the majority of the plants are alive (if much less attractive than before). I dug up one bag early, the yield was not great but but the spuds were delicious and there were still some small forming tubers. If I trim off the dead and dying foliage is it worth letting them continue for another month or would I be better pulling them now?
Thanks,
Ed
Complete newbie here. For the first time in my adult life I have a small garden to grow veg but it is almost entirely paved so I'm restricted to containers. I planted maincrop potatoes in early march in bags (salad blue and pink fir apples). I'm just north of London. They had been going big guns with a lot of thick foliage and had just finished flowering.
The recent severe heat coupled with travel has left them a little scorched. Several dead or discolored branches but the majority of the plants are alive (if much less attractive than before). I dug up one bag early, the yield was not great but but the spuds were delicious and there were still some small forming tubers. If I trim off the dead and dying foliage is it worth letting them continue for another month or would I be better pulling them now?
Thanks,
Ed
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