#kartoffeln

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Freshly harvested beetroot with soil still clinging to it, in a shallow wicker basket on wooden floorboards

Storing potatoes and root vegetables: cold, dark, kept apart

Why potatoes and apples never belong in the same room, why the cellar should sit neither below 4 nor above 10 degrees, and how carrots and beetroot stay crisp in damp sand right into spring. With wound healing, the solanine rules, rot diagnosis and the weekly check.

#einlagern#kartoffeln#wurzelgemuese#vorrat#ernte

Young potato plants growing in rows in dark garden soil

Vegetables

Planting and earthing up potatoes: from chitting to harvest

The potato is the perfect starter vegetable, entirely without raising plants indoors. Two simple actions decide yield and head start: chitting before planting and earthing up during growth. Here is how to get both right, from mid April to harvest.

#kartoffeln#gemuesegarten#anbau#haeufeln#vorkeimen#gemuese

Tomato leaf with the brownish black spots of late blight

Pests & Diseases

Late blight on tomato and potato: only prevention helps

One pathogen, two hosts: why late blight jumps from the potato to the tomato, how to recognise it on leaf, fruit and tuber, and how to get ahead of it with dry foliage, a roof and robust varieties.

#tomaten#kartoffeln#schaedlinge#pflege#hochsommer#gemuesegarten