Rain Damaged Potatoes
The vegetable garden needed rain, but when 38mm of heavy rain came in just a few hours last night, the potatoes suffered. The leaves and stems were bashed down by the weight of rain.
Some of the stems have completely snapped off.
The sun came out this afternoon, and the potato plants are beginning to recover. The plants at the end of the row are righting themselves and already standing upright.
Luckily the gardener is not worried by the damage. He says that the potatoes will survive, and benefit from the good rain!
[…] The same thing happened a couple of weeks ago when the new potatoes were bashed down. But five days later, the potato leaves were upright and looking well. They had recovered with no ill effects. […]
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