how long to keep fleece on potatoes?

[crichmond]

The sunlight has heated the greenhouse on my allotment upto 36 degrees this is measured on a max min digital thermometer, and since putting kitchen roll over I have had no problems with them fermenting or going soft and squishy all it does is act like fleece.
I know they need sunlight but I dont think direct sunlight is good when ther is a lack of ventilation such as in a shed or greenhouse.

Just my opinion of course, but from first hand experience.

[Paulottie]

Always a problem when the sun come in and out during spring. I fitted all my greenhouses (yes, got three of them now!!)with autoventing. Definitely a good investment.

The one I use for propergation, an old wooden framed one, is also completely bubble wrapped on glazed section and cellotexed on lower portion. It is far more consistent and I find this has really helped reduce the problem of baking of the seedlings when the sun suddenly comes out.

[crichmond]

Hi Paul

Ive got three myself, but the one with the bubble wrap has obviously got a gap somewhere as mice were getting in and eating my seed potatos even though they were on top of the staging.

Cheers Chris

[Paulottie]

Very difficult to keep the mice out I'm afraid, I don't seem to have too much of a problem with them at home(where my propagation house is). But those at the lottie are a real pest- the neighbour uses chocolate and broad beans as bait as they infact don't seem to like cheese!

[Eyren]

My seed potatoes decided to start sprouting when we had that unseasonably warm spell in early February, so I put them out in trays to chit so that the shoots would at least be short and healthy instead of long and weak. This week I noticed that they were starting to send out spiky horizontal shoots, which I assumed were the ones the tubers would grow on, so I thought it was time they went in the ground. The soil on my lottie (slightly clayey loam over chalk, a bit weedy but otherwise in pretty good condition) is damp but by no means sodden, so I'm hoping they'll be OK!