This will mean a smaller crop and smaller potaotes. Luckily help aka Derek was at hand with his ridger and after a few "pulls" .....
....we soon had them earthed up - it was Derek on the ridger and me on the spade!
We also did the same to the other potatoes on my main plot + covered over the 1st Earlies that were earthed up the other day, just in case!Non Potato News ......
One good piece of news is my broad beans. I thought that this was a frost bitten example when I first inspected the black bits, but I soon realised they were the flowers dying to give way to the beans that are popping out! oh, I can't wait!
And to end, this is me, in my lovely hat, inside my greenhouse which incidently, I decided to heat due to it only being 10 degrees inside. I had to go to the Trading Hut to buy some more paraffin, but I think it will be worth it, as the plants, although coming along nicely will obviously benefit from a little warmth.
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A few of my spuds have been had too. I see the weathermen are suggesting there may be the threat of further ground frosts over the next 2 weeks (at least in our neck of the woods anyway).
I'm still waiting to put by climbing beans out...
Hi, I arrived to discover mine scorched by frost too - poor things, only some of them though, others were fine - odd that! I earthed mine up a bit more too, fingers crossed eh!?
Yes there has been frost damage on my allotment too but thankfully my spuds didn't get affected.
I earthed mine up last week Thursday so hopefully they are still protected it got to 3 degrees down here last night.
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