I have five Rocket seeds potatoes growing in a large pastic tub. I
went away this weekend and came back to see some of the plants have
flopped over .

I have previously earthed up as high as I could without it all falling
down the sides. Have the just got to large should they have more room
to be earthed up , will they survive .

Should the be strong enough to stand up on their own ?

My guess if they have got so tall that the wind has gusted in a blown
some of them over ?

Do I need to worry or do anything ?

"Gardening_Convert" <colin.day [at] btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>I have five Rocket seeds potatoes growing in a large pastic tub. I
> went away this weekend and came back to see some of the plants have
> flopped over .
>
> I have previously earthed up as high as I could without it all falling
> down the sides. Have the just got to large should they have more room
> to be earthed up , will they survive .
>
> Should the be strong enough to stand up on their own ?
>
> My guess if they have got so tall that the wind has gusted in a blown
> some of them over ?
>
> Do I need to worry or do anything ?
>
Potatoes are large plants, and 5 is probably too much for a plastic tub
unless it's enormous. They will have been fighting for space, and the
flopped ones are the losers. Or maybe the wind did blow them over, in which
case the stem will have effectively closed off the route for nutrients. Or
the local kids hit it with a football while you were away. Or whatever.

I would leave it until you're ready to harvest them. The potatoes on the
flopped plants won't hurt till then. Unless of course they died of some
disease, in which case the others will probably follow soon. But then if you
try to remove the dead ones, you may destroy the good ones, because the
roots will be intertwined.

Decisions, decisions. If you are fairly sure there's no disease I would
leave it.

Steve

"Gardening_Convert" <colin.day [at] btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> I have five Rocket seeds potatoes growing in a large pastic tub.

> I
> went away this weekend and came back to see some of the plants have
> flopped over .



How often are you watering them?


michael adams

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