Tweet
Hi - I am new to this forum, so I hope you haven't had big discussions about this before.
I am on season 2 of my allotment (I only grew veggies on half of it last year, and I'm learning to live with the horsetail) and last year my maincrop pots were growing really well and suddenly they all died. There were still pots underneath, but I guess they were smaller and fewer than my fellow diggers potatoes.
I decided maybe it was lack of water, so this year I planted them under a membrane - which lets water through but slows evaporation and weeds (not horsetail though!). I planted earlies and maincrop.
The earlies started dying and now all but one have gone - and that one looks great, bushy & green, but the only one. There are pots under most of them, so I am digging them up. They had a big problem being eaten by slugs. The maincrop are still standing, but not as well as the other allotments on my site. Slugs haven't really got to them (only the odd one or two) but they are going yellow and not looking great. I have watered them and started feeding with a nettle feed I made (I think instrustions were in the mag earlier this year) and they are rallying, but I think I will loose the battle, and my spuds way before September.
Can you help with what I might have done wrong, and can I salvage them?
I am on season 2 of my allotment (I only grew veggies on half of it last year, and I'm learning to live with the horsetail) and last year my maincrop pots were growing really well and suddenly they all died. There were still pots underneath, but I guess they were smaller and fewer than my fellow diggers potatoes.
I decided maybe it was lack of water, so this year I planted them under a membrane - which lets water through but slows evaporation and weeds (not horsetail though!). I planted earlies and maincrop.
The earlies started dying and now all but one have gone - and that one looks great, bushy & green, but the only one. There are pots under most of them, so I am digging them up. They had a big problem being eaten by slugs. The maincrop are still standing, but not as well as the other allotments on my site. Slugs haven't really got to them (only the odd one or two) but they are going yellow and not looking great. I have watered them and started feeding with a nettle feed I made (I think instrustions were in the mag earlier this year) and they are rallying, but I think I will loose the battle, and my spuds way before September.
Can you help with what I might have done wrong, and can I salvage them?
Comment