Martin Clear Staff asked 15 years ago
I put down a good few potatoes this year for myself and the rest of the family, about 550 metres of drills. It is completely planted with Roosters and they are excellent to eat. They got the blight after 4 months despite intensive spraying with Dithane and I was advised by a gent in Teagasc to cut the stalks at about 5cm to prevent th blight entering the tuber, which I immediately did.I have been lifting them and eating them since about the start of August.Most of them are still in the ground in he original drills. I have sprayed and killed off any growth with Roundup so the drills are clean.How long more can I leave them in the ground as they are? Is this a problem at all in terms of storing them and lifting them as I need them with a view to having them all out by the beginning of January?