Potato crop 2021

Ruston3w

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south suffolk
Just got started here, about a week late so lucky not later what with the frosts an' all. M.Bard, not very even, a bit to do with frost and a bit from trying to irrigate over polythene, never ideal.
 

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Still a bit to plant locally. Have had 175ml of rain in May. Including 30ml in 30mins that washed out a lot locally. Fist planting are starting to emerge but very difficult travelling conditions. Going to try and run tramlines with a tractor tomorrow. Heard a neighbour was towing his sp sprayer with a tractor doing weed spray today.B599336B-5478-4773-A37C-184063D19F2A.jpeg72E4715D-5176-463D-B70D-AA825C177CB5.jpeg267388D4-2761-47F1-A35D-C9E38D7F9D8F.jpeg
It's a bit soon for that yet
 

first1potato

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Arable Farmer
I planted 0.4 ha of red potatoes (RED LADY) and 0.3ha of yellow potatoes (CARRERA) on april 10. Since i did not had a lot of rain from planting till few weeks back i am a little bit disapointed because i couldnt irrigate them earlier.

I used 400kg/ha of fertilizer 16 16 16 MOP (i know potato does not like chlorine from this kind of fertilizer but it was cheaper). I used TITUS 25 DF to get rid of weeds and now everything seems to be ok. Soon i will go first fertilization with AN or CAN 250kg/ha and last fertilization i will go with 150kg/ha AN. I will come back with photos if any1 wants to see my liitle potato plants
 

first1potato

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Arable Farmer
Hello everyone, i was wondering if someone can tell me if my plants has Potato virus Y or mosaic virus?
What about third photo, what are those black dots behind leaves? can it be mana or some kind of fungi?
 

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