December Raspberries, so is Greta onto something!

[muttley9050]

Just out of interest, I've always wondered how commercial growers avoid having tatties coming up everywhere forever when doing crop rotation,  I have raised beds and no matter how careful I am I end up with them coming through in every bed...
I don't really mind, sometimes I leave them and sometimes I don't but how does this work on a large scale ?

Make sure you pick them all. [emoji4]

[difflock]

4 hours ago, muttley9050 said:

Make sure you pick them all.

Surprised the birds did not have them away already.

[Peasgood]

5 hours ago, Macpherson said:

Just out of interest, I've always wondered how commercial growers avoid having tatties coming up everywhere forever when doing crop rotation,  I have raised beds and no matter how careful I am I end up with them coming through in every bed...

I don't really mind, sometimes I leave them and sometimes I don't but how does this work on a large scale ?

Just comes down to correct choice of herbicide in the following crop.

[Macpherson]

2 hours ago, Peasgood said:

Just comes down to correct choice of herbicide in the following crop.

Ok thanks, I'm glad I grow my own in that case👍

[headgroundsman]

9 hours ago, Macpherson said:

Just out of interest, I've always wondered how commercial growers avoid having tatties coming up everywhere forever when doing crop rotation,  I have raised beds and no matter how careful I am I end up with them coming through in every bed...

I don't really mind, sometimes I leave them and sometimes I don't but how does this work on a large scale ?

 

[Macpherson]

5 minutes ago, headgroundsman said:

 

Not sure I understand.. I don't use chems in my garden

[headgroundsman]

i worked on a farm in the eighties. we would picked as many small potatoes as possible but volunteers were a problem in the cereal   crops

[Macpherson]

3 minutes ago, headgroundsman said:

i worked on a farm in the eighties. we would picked as many small potatoes as possible but volunteers were a problem in the cereal   crops

Ok, I was just curious as to the perennial appearance of tatties everywhere that they've been previously planted and how commercial growers avoid this when rotating crops.

 

I got round it by growing in black bags which is fine for me but obviously not any use commercially, it would seem that my question was answered... and it's the use of herbicides which would defeat the purpose of growing my own.

 

Also I find it fascinating that if I plant a really crap supermarket tattie that's chitted in the kitchen it grows into a much nicer thing all together, cheers.

[Richard 1234]

14 hours ago, Macpherson said:

Ok, I was just curious as to the perennial appearance of tatties everywhere that they've been previously planted and how commercial growers avoid this when rotating crops.

 

I got round it by growing in black bags which is fine for me but obviously not any use commercially, it would seem that my question was answered... and it's the use of herbicides which would defeat the purpose of growing my own.

 

Also I find it fascinating that if I plant a really crap supermarket tattie that's chitted in the kitchen it grows into a much nicer thing all together, cheers.

The machines don’t miss any if driven properly they are working on de-stoned ground and the machine is wide and cuts deep enough not to miss any. And as said if there is any they will be killed off on normal herbicide spray next season.

[Stere]

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They do keep fairly well in the ground as we rarely have prolonged spells of frost that will reach them.

Tried leaving potatoes in ground and they keep fine but get eaten by  slugs assume commercially they spray to kill slugs?