Post date: Apr 21, 2020 2:29:57 AM
Question:
When we grow roots & tubers, how does cutting the greens affect the roots & tubers underground? How will it delay the maturity of the vegetable?
From Uma:
If you grow for the tubers, you shall not touch the leaves. The leaves make the sugar from the sun and store it in the tuber. Yields will be affected. Few extreme cases and few exceptions.
Potatoes - any damage to leaves, the plant dies.
Onion and garlic - harvest the leaves, there is no yield. We grow a patch for leaves and a patch for yields.
Ginger and turmeric - can harvest some leaves. No yield if you take all leaves.
Beets - harvest side leaves only to help the plant to be well aired.
Carrots - useless leaves. But no harvest if you chop them.
Sweet potatoes - lot of leaves. Can harvest tips and yields will still be good.
Hope this helps. Moral of the story : grow for greens separately as a practice. Let the tuber yields be.