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Hi Guys, I know it's always a good idea to rotate but I was wondering how importand it is with spuds. The reason I ask is that I have moved from what the last guy had as a potato bed to another one. The one that was a potato bed was dug over several times removing spuds. Even after this there are still spuds coming up daily. I was wondering if I can aviod this next year by keeping the same bed as spuds??????
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Potatoes are pretty prone to blight and I always move them around. I have a four year rotation so the spuds aren't in the same place for 4 years giving 3 years off. I'm getting some volunteers coming up in the beans beds but just pull them out and hopefully next year they will all be gone, still giving 2 years free. Having said that I grew some random spuds in an uncultivated patch last year and have now sited my polytunnel there. As a result there are the occaisional potato coming thruogh where I now have toms which is by no means ideal but it's only for this year so could be worse.
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Not a good idea to stagnate potatoes as pests and other diseases are likely to build up as well as blight. Eel and wire worm and keel slugs on the pest side and scab on diseases.
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A farmer just down the road from here has had tatties in the same field for the last four years....go figure!Comment
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Always rotate if you can, it is proven to reduce the occurrence of pests and diseases. Farmers don't necessarily do it if they're using a lot of chemicals to control the pests and diseases, it's more of an organic strategy. If you spray every year for common pests and diseases then it's not as important. If you spray only when pests or diseases appear or if you grow organically, it'd be in your best interests to rotate.
You will get the occasional volunteer potato, no matter how hard you try and make sure you've dug up every single one, some always manage to escape! I wouldn't worry about it. Just pull them up like every other weed. Just be thankful they're easy to kill off unlike some other weeds!Comment
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And he'll be dousing them in chemicals: pesticides, fertilisers, herbicides, fungicides etc. He'll spray up to 15 times just against blightOriginally posted by solway cropper View PostAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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