• Register  |
  • LoginLogin
Close
Login
 
 
Register
 Advanced search
  • Search
  • Register
  • Login
  • JOIN!
  • View unanswered posts
  • View active topics
  • Gardening
Gardening Forum   VEGETABLE GARDENING  Vegetable Gardening Forum

What happened to my potatoes?




Post a new topic
Post a reply
3 posts • Page 1 of 1

What happened to my potatoes?

Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:23 pm

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?

Image
bnther
Full Member
 
Posts: 16
Joined: Jan 24 '10
Location: Michigan
Top

Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:08 pm

Tell us about your soil, amendments and watering. Any manure added this year? How did the plants look throughout the growing cycle.

Potato scab,
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell. ... o_Scab.htm

Eric
DoubleDogFarm
Super Green Thumb
 
Posts: 6115
Joined: Mar 29 '10
Top

Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:20 pm

DoubleDogFarm wrote:Tell us about your soil, amendments and watering. Any manure added this year? How did the plants look throughout the growing cycle.


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.

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! :P
bnther
Full Member
 
Posts: 16
Joined: Jan 24 '10
Location: Michigan
Top

Please Share. Thank you!

 
 
Top


Post a reply
3 posts • Page 1 of 1

 

 

  •   Similar Topics
    Replies
    Views
    Last post
  • What happened with my potatoes?
    in Vegetable Gardening Forum
    7
    937
    by Dillbert View the latest post
  • What happened to the Thread, growing winter potatoes?
    in Vegetable Gardening Forum
    1
    388
    by applestar View the latest post
  • Storage for potatoes, sweet potatoes, apples, winter squash
    in Vegetable Gardening Forum
    2
    1689
    by Jbest View the latest post
  • planting regular potatoes where sweet potatoes grew?
    in Vegetable Gardening Forum
    1
    1416
    by applestar View the latest post
Return to Vegetable Gardening Forum
  • Delete all board cookies • All times are UTC
Privacy Policy | Contact Us
Copyright HelpfulGardener.com 2003-2018 all rights reserved.
All trademarks and copyrights held by respective owners.