Potatoes after frost

[ballybollen]

Does seaweed sprays help to recover tops after frost?

 

[ridger]

Wait til they start growing again. Best to not look at them at all for a week

 

[ballybollen]

Even ones below fleece got touched if next week to be warmer should I take fleece off?

 

[ridger]

Wait til they are pushing it away up

 

[ballybollen]

They we’re about a foot high! Maybe get drop of rain on Sunday might help

 

[Honest john]

The Potato weakly says it dropped to -6C in NI this last week.

What about Shropshire ?

 

[legin]

Shropshire & most the Midlands hit in varying degrees.

 

[Bogweevil]

Mere ground frost here in Thames valley, but white enough. Tops of spuds burnt even under fleece, seen worse, but not very often! They usually come back well enough. Last time a frost this sharp, >15 years ago the yield took a bad knock, but not so severely burnt this time.

 

[Kidds]

Just my own patch. There's 40 acres up the road that will look similar. We've hard some hard frosts

 

[Fubar]

I was moaning that mine hadn't come through yet. But now I'm glad they hadn't.
Lack of rainfall is going to my biggest concern for the next month if the forecast is to be believed.

 

[ridger]

Will they come again. I had frost on a crop about 12 years ago, it dug 5 boxes to acre. And headlands which were in 2 weeks later were totally unaffected and a good crop. So mine came around but only a third of a crop

 

[riverside2]

Certainly was a hard frost in the midlands, more than a few fields looking like this one I saw on Friday

 

[steveR]

Contract Lads have spuds on one banky field, facing South West. Top end was largely unaffected, the bottom westerly end, maybe 100m away and 5m lower, was wiped out. Never seen a better example of frost rolling down a hill.

 

[legin]

How much knock on effect will there be on the yield?

 

[Honest john]

I have spare seed if needed. In good order.