I dug up the first batch of potatoes this morning. Half of looked good and some of them looked awful. There was a range of tiny black dots to something that looked like blisters. I was exceptionally hot this summer, but I had them covered pretty good. Anyone got any ideas?
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DoubleDogFarm
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The plants looked great! Very tall, very green, lots of flowers! I thought for sure I was going to score big this year. As to the condition of the soil, I'm not sure. I didn't add any manure, but this is a newer spot a little closer to some 30' pine trees ie; lots of sap. Maybe that's the issue -- I dunno. What's strange is that only some of them looked rough. I'd dig up a cluster and everything looked good, but on the very next plant things would look rough.DoubleDogFarm wrote:Tell us about your soil, amendments and watering. Any manure added this year? How did the plants look throughout the growing cycle.
I watered them fairly heavy, but it was extremely hot for about 2 weeks straight -- with no break.
It's been a rough year for the garden over all. My bean plants looked awful - producing lots of hollow beans and even the good ones tasted a little off. And the tomato plants turned into tomato bushes that took over everything.
Yep, this amateur gardener got his butt handed to him this year!
